OPENING REMARKS
Mohsen Khalil
Director, Global Information and Communication Technologies, World
Bank Group
Mr. Khalil is Director of the Global Information and Communication
Technologies department, a joint department of the World Bank and
International Finance Corporation (IFC). Prior to this appointment,
he held positions at IFC as Director of Central Asia, Middle East
and North Africa Department. He also served as Chief Investment
Officer at the Telecommunications, Transport, and Utilities
Department. Previous to this, while also a Professor of Business at
the American University of Beirut, Mr. Khalil served as Chief
Adviser to the Lebanese Minister of Post and Telecommunications; as
Board Director of Lebanon's Autonomous Fund for Housing; and as
advisor to various governments and major corporations in the Middle
East. He also worked with McKinsey & Co. Management Consultants,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and MITRE Corporation.
AUTHORS
Neil Gregory
Adviser, Financial and Private Sector Development, World Bank Group
Office of the Chief Economist, IFC
Mr. Gregory is Adviser to the Vice President for Financial and
Private Sector Development at the World Bank. He was previously a
manager in the South Asia Department of the IFC. He has written on
the emergence of the private sector in China and on foreign direct
investment to developing countries and has lectured on the growth of
the private sector in China and India. He began his career as an
economist with the UK government, and served as adviser to the UK
Executive Director of the World Bank Group and IMF from 1993?96.
Stanley Nollen
Professor of International Business, McDonough School of Business,
Georgetown University
Mr. Nollen is professor of International Business at the Georgetown
University McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC. His
research includes studies of the growth, intellectual property, and
export performance of firms in the information technology industry
in India along with the performance of firms in emerging market
economies. He has published books and articles in leading journals.
He teaches international business and economics, and has conducted
study programs and executive education courses in Belgium, the Czech
Republic, Croatia, India, República Bolivariana de Venezuela, and
Vietnam and has twice received Fulbright scholar awards.
Stoyan Tenev
Chief Evaluation Officer and Head of Macroevaluations, Independent Evaluation
Group, IFC,
Mr. Tenev is Chief Evaluation Officer and Head of Macroevaluations
at the Independent Evaluation Group of the International Finance
Corporation. He was previously Lead Economist for East Asia and
Pacific at the IFC. His research includes books and articles on
China, East Asian economies, transition economies, economic reforms,
private sector development, and corporate governance.
DISCUSSANTS
Shahid Yusuf
Economic Adviser, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World
Bank Institute
Mr. Yusuf is Economic Adviser at the World Bank Institute at the
World Bank and currently manages a major project on East Asia's
Prospects. He was the Director for the 1999/2000 WDR and has held
positions in the Bank's regional and research departments. Mr.
Yusuf?s most recent publications include: Post Industrial East Asian
Cities co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima (2006); Dancing with Giants
co-edited with L. Alan Winters ( 2007); How Universities Promote
Economic Growth co-edited with Kaoru Nabeshima (2007); China
Urbanizes co-edited with Tony Saich (2008); Growing Industrial
Clusters in Asia co-edited with Kaoru Nabeshima and Shoichi
Yamashita (2008); Accelerating Catch-Up: Tertiary Education and
Growth in Africa co-authored with William Saint and Kaoru Nabeshima
(2008); and Development Economics through the Decades (World Bank
2009).
Albert Keidel
Senior Associate, China Program, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
Mr. Keidel joined the Carnegie Endowment in September 2004, after
serving as acting director and deputy director for the Office of
East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. His work
at the Endowment focuses on issues relating to China?s economic
system reforms, macroeconomy, regional development, and poverty
reduction strategy. Before joining Treasury in 2001, he covered
economic trends, system reforms, poverty, and country risk as a
senior economist in the World Bank office in Beijing. Mr. Keidel has
worked in China, Japan, and Korea and taught graduate economics
courses on China, Japan, and economic development. He also currently
teaches a Georgetown University graduate course on China?s economy.
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