CHAIR
Ernesto May
Sector Director, SASPF, World Bank
Mr. May is the Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management, Finance and Private Sector Development in the South Asia
Region (SASPF) of the World Bank. He is responsible for providing
strategic direction for the Bank?s research and policy advice to
member countries in South Asia in the areas of poverty reduction,
economic policy, governance, public sector reform, finance and
private sector development. Previously, Mr. May held this same
position in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank
from July 2000 until September 2007. Mr. May also served in
several other positions, including Principal Economist and Country
Team Leader for Colombia, and Lead Economist for Bolivia, Paraguay
and Peru.
PRESENTING AUTHORS
Kiatchai Sophastienphong
Senior Financial Sector Specialist, SASFP, World Bank
Mr. Sophastienphong is Senior Financial Sector Specialist, Poverty
Reduction, Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector
Development at the World Bank, South Asia Region (SASPF). Recently,
he led the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) update mission
to Sri Lanka; helped to design and implement restructuring and bank
privatization programs in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan; and
guided the dialogue on financial sector issues in several client
countries at both the policy and technical levels. He has designed
the overall financial sector strategies for these countries and
developed a program to implement these strategies. Prior to joining
the Bank, he held senior executive positions at the Bank of Thailand
(the central bank) and two private commercial banks in Thailand.
Yibin Mu
Senior Capital Market Specialist, Global Capital Markets Development
Department, World Bank/IFC
Mr. Mu is a Senior Capital Market Specialist at the World Bank/IFC
joint Global Capital Market Development Department. Over the past
nine years, he has provided technical advice on financial sector
development issues to about 30 World Bank client countries around
the world. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked at the Hong
Kong Monetary Authority and China?s Central Bank for eight years,
where he was mainly responsible for supervision of foreign financial
institutions in China and Chinese overseas financial institutions.
His expertise and research interests include capital markets
development, prudential regulation and supervision, access to
finance, and cash/debt management.
DISCUSSANTS
Shidan Derakhshani
Director, Global Capital Markets Development Department, World
Bank/IFC
Mr. Derakhshani is Director of the Global Capital Markets
Development Department, which is a joint department of the World
Bank and IFC. Prior to this, he was Director of Corporate Governance
and Capital Markets Advisory. He has also been Associate Director,
Global Financial Markets, IFC, where he headed its global financial
engineering activities, and was also Senior Manager for Asia, Africa
, and the Middle East. Mr. Derakhshani?s other positions in IFC
include Manager, East Asia Financial Markets Division, and Chief
Investment Officer for Latin America. He has also been Chief
Investment Officer on the World Bank?s liquid investment portfolio.
He started his career at the World Bank Group as Economist for
Europe and the Middle East at the IFC.
Phillip Anderson
Senior Manager, Banking & Debt Management, World Bank
Mr. Anderson joined the World Bank in 2002, after 15 years
experience in government debt management in New Zealand. During that
time, he was a member of the team that reformed public debt
management and held a number of front office and management
positions. From 1997 to 2002, he was Treasurer of the New Zealand
Debt Management Office. Since joining the World Bank, Mr. Anderson
has managed advisory activities in numerous countries in Asia, Latin
America, Europe, and the Middle East. He is currently Senior
Manager, Banking and Debt Management and has overall responsibility
for the debt management activities of the department, which also
includes training courses for IBRD countries and publications on
sound practices.
CLOSING REMARKS
Simon C. Bell
Sector Manager, SASFP, World Bank
Mr. Bell is currently Sector Manager in the Finance and Private
Sector unit (FSD and PSD) of the South Asia region within the World
Bank. He has been working in the South Asia region on private
sector and financial sector issues for almost a decade ? half of
this time as manager. Prior to working in South Asia, he worked in
the Africa region of the World Bank for eight years on similar FSD
and PSD issues.
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