CHAIR
John Garrison
Senior Civil Society Specialist, World Bank
Mr. Garrison joined the World Bank in 1996 as a Civil Society
Specialist and spent the first five years working in the World
Bank's office in Brasilia, Brazil. He currently works on the Global
Civil Society Team, where he helps to formulate engagement
strategies, provides technical advice to senior management, and
undertakes outreach activities with CSOs. Before joining the Bank,
he worked for a number of development and human rights organizations
in Latin America and the U.S., including the Interamerican
Foundation and the Washington Office on Latin America.
PRESENTING AUTHORS
Robin Broad
Professor, School of International Service, American University
Ms. Broad is Professor of International Development at the School of
International Service at American University. She has worked as an
international economist for the U.S. Treasury Department, for
then-Congressman Charles Schumer, and for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. She is the author or co-author of numerous
books and articles on development, globalization, and the
environment. She has worked for several years in the Philippines,
and has done field research in numerous other countries.
John Cavanagh
Director, Institute for Policy Studies
Mr. Cavanagh has been the Director of the Institute for Policy
Studies since 1998. He is a former official of the UN Conference on
Trade and Development and the World Health Organization, and is
co-author of 13 books and numerous articles on the global economy.
He serves on the Civil Society Advisory Committee of UNDP and on the
boards of several non-profits. This husband and wife team traveled
from Geneva to the rural Philippines to Washington D.C., to write
this book as well as their award-winning Plundering Paradise: The
Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines.
DISCUSSANTS
Hassan Zaman
Lead Economist, World Bank
Mr. Zaman, a Bangladeshi national, is currently a Lead Economist in
the central Poverty Reduction Group of the World Bank. In his ten
years at the World Bank, Mr. Zaman has also worked in the Africa and
South Asia regions as a country economist during which time he was
part of a range of policy reform and investment loans. He has
carried out analytical work on food prices, public expenditures,
poverty, micro-finance and NGOs.
Rick Rowden
Independent Consultant
Mr. Rowden worked most recently for ActionAid International USA,
where he focused on monitoring the macro-economic policies and
improving the accountability and transparency of the IMF and World
Bank. Prior to coming to ActionAid, he worked as a policy researcher
and advocate with other D.C.-based international economic justice
advocacy NGOs, including RESULTS Educational Fund and as a board
member of the Jubilee USA Network. Before coming to Washington D.C.
in 2000, he taught at California State University at Monterey Bay
and Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
About The InfoShop
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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.
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