REMINDER - "Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations" Monday, November 17th at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Raymond Fisman
Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and
Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia
Business School
Mr. Fisman worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of the
World Bank for a year before moving to Columbia in 1999. His
research focuses on corruption and more broadly on what makes people
do bad things (he also sometimes thinks about why people do good
things). His work has been published in leading economics journals,
including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy
, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He writes a monthly column for
Slate magazine. Economic Gangsters. is his first book.

OPENING REMARKS
Daniel Kaufmann
Director, World Bank Institute
Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries
on governance and development, Mr. Kaufmann, with his team, has
pioneered new approaches to analyze country governance as well as
survey methodologies and indicators for good governance and
anti-corruption programs around the world. He heads the work on
Global Governance and Anti-Corruption, and previously held positions
at the World Bank which include managing a team on Finance,
Regulation and Governance, heading capacity building for Latin
America, and also serving as Lead Economist both in economies in
transition as well as in the Bank's research department. He is also
a member of the World Economic Forum (DAVOS) faculty.

MODERATOR
Tim Steele
Senior Governance Specialist, World Bank,
Mr. Steele is currently a senior governance specialist in the
Secretariat to the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative. He is on
special assignment from the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime. He previously headed the anti-corruption work stream at the
UK Department of International Development. A Forensic Accountant by
training, Tim learnt his trade investigating the demise of the Bank
of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).In post -apartheid South
Africa he was persuaded to work within the public sector to build
financial investigation capacity. Having expended considerable
effort on an investigation that led to the successful prosecution of
a Cabinet Minister, Tim decided he time would be better spent
working to reform the institutions that allow or even encourage
corruption. In the last 15 years, he has worked within the
governments of South Africa, Kenya, Namibia and Zambia.

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"Alliance Curse" discussed on Tuesday, November 25 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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Reception to follow the presentation

AUTHOR
Hilton Root
Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Root, an academic and policy specialist in international
political economy and development, joined George Mason University in
summer of 2006. He served the current U.S. administration as the
U.S. Executive Director Designate of the Asian Development Bank, and
as senior advisor on development finance to the Department of the
Treasury. Mr. Root was Director and Senior Fellow of Global Studies
at the Milken Institute and was a Senior Research Fellow and
Director of the Initiative on Economic Growth and Democracy at the
Hoover Institution. His areas of expertise are international
economics, economic development and policy reform, and Asian
affairs. As a policy expert, Mr. Root advises the Asian Development
Bank, the IMF, the World Bank, the UNDP, the OECD, the U.S. State
Department, the U.S. Treasury Department, and USAID. He taught at
the University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology, the
University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. Mr. Root has
published six books and more than 100 articles.

MODERATOR
Brian Levy
Advisor, Governance, (PREM) World Bank
Mr. Levy is the author of Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and
Action (World Bank, 2007), which builds on his 2006 work on
governance monitoring featured in the 2006 Global Monitoring Report,
Mutual Accountability: Aid, Trade and Governance. He worked in the
World Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003 on the
challenges of strengthening the institutional underpinnings of
African development. For the last four years, he worked as sector
manager of the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building
Unit. He was a member of the core team which produced the World
Bank?s 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World.
He has published numerous books and articles on the interactions
between public institutions, the private sector and development in
Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere. Prior to joining the World Bank,
he was assistant professor in development economics at Williams
College in Williamstown, MA.

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
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international organizations, and other publishers on development
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REMINDER: Joint Book Launch on "The Impact of Private Sector Participation" on November 13 at noon in JB1-080

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CHAIR
Laura Tuck
Sector Director, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Ms. Tuck works in the Sustainable Development Department, which is
responsible for transport, energy, urban development, water
resources management and water supply/sanitation, agriculture and
rural development, social development and environment. This
department is also responsible for climate change and GEF. Before
she moved to the Latin America Region, Ms. Tuck was the Director for
Sustainable Development in ECA.

AUTHORS
Luis Guasch
Senior Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Mr. Guasch is responsible for the areas of competitiveness,
regulation, infrastructure, innovation, and technological
development, and is also a Professor of Economics at the University
of California, San Diego. In addition, he heads the World Bank
Infrastructure Regulation Thematic Group.

Katharina Gassner
Senior Economist, Finance Economics and Urban Department, World Bank
Ms. Gassner is an expert in network regulation and has worked in
various areas relating to infrastructure, including policy and
sector reform advice, public-private service delivery options,
applied regulatory studies, and econometric research. She has
developed standard guidelines for infrastructure assessment reports
in energy and water, and has undertaken country studies in public
finance and the cost of infrastructure service delivery to
governments.

DISCUSSANTS
Marianne Fay
Co-Director, World Development Report 2010 on Climate Change, World
Bank
Prior to her current position, Ms. Fay was a Lead Economist in the
Office of the Chief Economist for ECA, where she worked on
infrastructure and more recently, adaptation to climate change and
the Lead Economist for the Finance, Infrastructure, and Private
Sector Development Department in LCR. Her research has mostly
focused on the role of infrastructure and urbanization in
development, and more recently on urban poverty issues.

John Nellis
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Principal, International Analytics
Mr. Nellis, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for Global
Development, and a Principal in the research and consulting firm,
International Analytics, co-directed (with Nancy Birdsall) the
Center for Global Development's Project on Privatization. From 1984
to 2000 Mr. Nellis was at the World Bank, where he designed and
implemented projects and conducted and managed research on:
governance, public management, state-owned enterprise reform, and
privatization issues.

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER - "Courting Social Justice" discussed on Wednesday, November 12 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

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________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER - "Courting Social Justice" discussed on Wednesday, November 12 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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Coffee and cookies will be served

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations" Monday, November 17th at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Raymond Fisman
Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and
Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia
Business School.
Professor Fisman worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of
the World Bank for a year before moving to Columbia in 1999.
Professor Fisman's research focuses on corruption and more broadly
on what makes people do bad things (he also sometimes thinks about
why people do good things). His work has been published in leading
economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal
of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He writes
a monthly column for Slate magazine. Economic Gangsters. is his
first book.

PANELISTS
TBA

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.