PRESENTING EDITORS
Raj Desai
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and
Associate Professor of International Development, Georgetown
University School of Foreign Service
For the past eight years, Mr. Desai has taught courses on
comparative and international political economy at Georgetown
University. His work focuses on problems of economic reform,
poverty, and international development. Previously, Mr. Desai was a
member of the core team for the World Bank's World Development
Report team in 2003-2004. From 1996 to 1999, he was as a private
sector development specialist at the World Bank, where he worked on
the privatization and restructuring of public enterprises in Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union, and on the recovery of financial
systems following economic crises in East Asia and Latin America.
Itzhak Goldberg
Policy and Strategy Advisor, Private and Financial Sector Unit,
Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Goldberg has been with the World Bank since 1990, mostly in the
ECA region in different departments. He joined the Private and
Financial Sector Unit of ECA in 1997. He has been in charge of
private sector development programs in various countries in the
region (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Romania, Turkmenistanand Uzbekistan)
and he was pivotal in the design and implementation of the
Privatization Program of the Government of Serbia.
DISCUSSANTS
Mark Dutz
Senior Economist, Private and Financial Sector Unit, South Asia
Region, World Bank
Mr. Dutz works in the World Bank?s South Asia Poverty Reduction,
Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development
Department. His responsibilities include helping partner governments
spur competition, entrepreneurship and competitiveness, enhance the
environment for technology development and innovation, enable access
to finance and other essential business services, and more broadly
assist in facilitating productivity growth and job creation. As part
of recent work on India, he is lead author and editor of the book
Unleashing India?s Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive
Growth(2007). Mr. Dutz previously worked as Sr. Advisor to the State
Minister of Economy on competitiveness and infrastructure issues in
Ankara, Turkey; and in the Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD.
Anders Åslund
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Åslund has been a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute since
2006. He is also an adjunct professor at GeorgetownUniversity. He
examines the economies of Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as
well as focuses on the broader implications of economic transition.
He worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from
1994 to 2005, first as a senior associate and then from 2003 as
director of the Russian and Eurasian Program. He also worked at the
Brookings Institution and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian
Studies. Mr. Åslund served as an economic adviser to the governments
of Russia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. He is the author of eight books,
including Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform
Succeeded and Democracy Failed (2007) and How Capitalism Was Built:
The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and
Central Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
MODERATOR
Fernando Montes-Negret
Director, Private and Financial Sector Unit, Europe and Central
Asia, World Bank
Mr. Montes-Negret, a Colombian national, is the Sector Director of
ECSPF in charge of defining and implementing the Bank?s strategy for
the development of the financial and private sectors of the client
countries in the ECA Region. Mr. Montes-Negret joined the Bank in
October 1984 as an Economist in the Latin America and Caribbean's
Industrial Development and Finance Division 2, working in Chile
(during the 1984-85 banking crisis), Costa Rica and Argentina. After
a three-year break in service, serving as Deputy Governor of the
Banco de la Republica (Colombia?s Central Bank), he returned to the
Bank in June 1989 and held various positions as Sr.
Economist--working in the East Asia Region (as Country Economist for
China), Europe and Central Asia Region and the Financial Sector
Development Department.
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