REMINDER: "Conditional Cash Transfers" discussed on February 10 at 10:30 AM in H Auditorium

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CHAIR
Justin Lin
Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, Development Economics,
World Bank
Mr. Lin took up this position in 2008 after serving for 15 years as
Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic
Research (CCER) at Peking University. Among his many public roles in
China, Mr. Lin served as a deputy of China?s People?s Congress and
Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.
He has served on several national and international committees,
where he has led groups and councils on development policy,
technology, and environment.

AUTHORS
Ariel Fiszbein
Chief Economist, Human Development Network,World Bank
For several years, Mr. Fiszbein coordinated the World Bank?s
Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) initiative, and oversaw the
institution's expanding efforts to build solid evidence on effective
development programs. He has been Country Economist for Colombia,
Coordinator of the Poverty Reduction program at the World Bank
Institute, and Country Sector Leader for Human Development for the
Southern Cone countries in Latin America. Between 2003 -2005, he was
Lead Economist in the Human Development Department in Latin America
and the Caribbean, where he led a large program of analytical and
strategy work. He has published extensively on issues of social
policy, including Citizens, Politicians, and Providers : The Latin
American Experience with Service Delivery Reform (2005),.

Norbert Schady
Senior Research Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Schady works predominantly in Latin America and East Asia and
does research on early childhood development, education, health,
safety nets, and the impact of macroeconomic shocks on human capital
outcomes. Co-authored work on education, Closing the Gap in
Education and Technology (2003), urges Latin American and Caribbean
governments to address the region's deficits in skills and
technology, thereby boosting productivity and improving economic
growth prospects.

MODERATOR
Martin Ravallion
Director, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Ravallion is Director of the Development Research Group. He has
held various position in the World Bank, since joining as an
economist in 1988. He has written three books and over 170 papers on
poverty and policies for fighting it. He currently serves on the
editorial boards of ten economic journals, is a Senior Fellow of the
Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, a founding
council member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality,
and he serves on the advisory board of the International Poverty
Research Center.

DISCUSSANTS
Tina Rosenberg
Contributing Writer, The New York Times
Ms. Rosenberg is a Contributing Writer for the New York Times
magazine specializing in public health, poverty and human rights.
Before that, she was an Editorial Writer for the Times on the same
subjects. She has written two books, Children of Cain: Violence and
the Violent in Latin America, and The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's
Ghosts After Communism, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the
National Book Award. She is working on another book, on behavior
change.

Santiago Levy
Vice President, Sector & Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank
Mr. Levy became the Vice President for Sector and Knowledge in.
2008. Prior to that, he served as General Manager and Chief
Economist for the IDB Research Department. Previously, he was
General Director at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).
Under his tenure, he promoted changes to the Social Security Act to
increase transparency and accountability in IMSS finances and create
long-term reserves. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Levy served as the Deputy
Minister at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico,
becoming the main architect of the renowned social program
Progresa-Oportunidades that benefits the poor. Mr. Levy has advised
several governments and international organizations and has held
several teaching positions, including faculty positions at the
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo of Mexico and Boston University.

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