CHAIR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Network,
World Bank
Mr. Leipziger is the Vice President of the Poverty Reduction &
Economic Management Network (PREM) at the World Bank since 2004. As
the Head of the PREM Network, which has nearly 1000 professionals,
he reports to the President of the World Bank, and provides
leadership for the institution?s strategic work on growth and
poverty reduction across the regional PREM units. He also serves as
the focal point for economic policy, debt, trade, gender and
governance issues and for the World Bank?s dialogue with key partner
institutions?including the IMF, WTO, OECD, and the EU. In addition,
he serves as Head of the World Bank's Delegation to Hong Kong Trade
Ministerial, Head of the World Bank's Delegation to G8 Ministerials,
which is responsible for crisis analysis and policy coordination.
AUTHORS
Deepa Narayan
Project Director, Moving Out of Poverty Study, World Bank
Ms. Narayan is project director of the 15-country World Bank study
entitled, Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy,
and Growth from the Bottom Up. From 2002 through 2008, she served as
senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction & Economic Management (PREM)
Network of the World Bank, first in the Poverty Reduction Group and
subsequently in the vice president?s office within PREM. She has
development experience in Asia and Africa while working across
sectors for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and
the United Nations system. Her areas of expertise include
participatory development, community-driven development, and social
capital, as well as use of these concepts to create wealth for poor
people. Her recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty:
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007);
Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work (with Elena Glinskaya,
World Bank 2007); Measuring Empowerment:Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives (World Bank, 2005); Empowerment and Poverty Reduction:
A Sourcebook (World Bank 2002); and the three-volume Voices of the
Poor; series (Oxford University Press 2000, 2001, 2002).
Lant Pritchett
Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University)
Mr. Pritchett is professor of the practice of economic development
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He is also a nonresident fellow of the Center for Global
Development, a senior fellow of BREAD (Bureau for Research and
Economic Analysis of Development), co-editor of the Journal of
Development Economics, and a consultant to Google.org. He held a
number of positions at the World Bank between 1988 and 2007, working
in Indonesia and India as well as in Washington, DC. He has
participated in teams that produced a number of World Bank reports,
including World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for
Development; Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn?t, and Why
(1998); Better Health Systems for India?s Poor: Findings, Analysis,
and Options (2003); World Development Report 2004: Making Services
Work for Poor People; and Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning
from a Decade of Reforms (2005). He has authored or co-authored more
than 50 papers published in refereed journals, as chapters in books,
or as articles. His monograph, Let Their People Come: Breaking the
Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility, was published by Center for
Global Development in 2006.
DISCUSSANT
Geoffrey Lamb
Managing Director, Public Policy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mr. Lamb is Managing Director for Public Policy at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation (Washington, DC office). In this position,
he serves as the senior advisor on international policy development
and leads a team that partners with public policy issues in each of
the foundation's three program areas (Global Health, Global
Development and U.S. Programs) to help build strategic relationships
that are critical to the foundation's work. Before joining the
foundation, Mr. Lamb held several senior development positions at
the World Bank, most recently as Vice President, Concessional
Finance and Global Partnerships. An Irish citizen, he was born in
South Africa and lived in the UK, where he was subsequently a Fellow
and Deputy Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the
University of Sussex.
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