Book Discussion "The Second World" on February 12 at 12:30 PM in J1-050

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CHAIR
Srilal Mohan Perera
Advisor, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank
Group
Mr. Perera has been with MIGA since 1989, which almost dates back to
the inception of MIGA's operations. Mr. Perera is a national of Sri
Lanka and has extensive experience working with multilateral
organizations such as the Colombo Plan, UNDP, and the World Bank.
Prior to his appointment with MIGA, he served from 1986?1989 as an
attorney at the Iran?United States Claims Tribunal in the Hague,
where he was Legal Counsel to the President of the Tribunal. Mr.
Perera has many years of operational experience in MIGA and in
advising governments of countries in Asia, Africa and East Europe on
investment related laws. Mr. Perera is also Adjunct Professor of Law
at the Washington College of Law of the American University in
Washington D.C. He has a number of publications to his credit.

AUTHOR
Parag Khanna
Senior Research Fellow and Director, Global Governance Initiative,
New America Foundation
Mr. Khanna directs the Global Governance Initiative in the American
Strategy Program of the New America Foundation. As part of his work,
he leads an effort to find innovative strategies for governmental,
corporate, and civil society collaboration to resolve pressing
global problems and redefine diplomacy for the 21st century. He has
worked at the World Economic Forum, where he specialized in scenario
and risk planning, and at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he
conducted research on terrorism and conflict resolution. In 2007,
he was a senior geopolitical advisor to U.S. Special Operations
Command. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The
Financial Times, Harper's Magazine, Policy Review, Foreign Policy,
and he has been featured on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera International,
National Public Radio, and Doordarshan (India).

DISCUSSANT
Stewart Patrick
Senior Fellow & Director of Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations
Mr. Patrick is senior fellow and director of the program on Global
Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of
expertise include multilateral cooperation in the management of
global issues; U.S. policy toward international institutions,
including the United Nations; the challenges posed by fragile,
failing, and post-conflict states; and the integration of U.S.
defense, development, and diplomatic instruments in U.S. foreign and
national security policy. From 2005 to 2008, he was research fellow
at the Center for Global Development. He also served as a
professorial lecturer in international relations/conflict management
at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International
Studies. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Patrick served on the secretary of
state's policy planning staff. He is the author, co-author or editor
of four books and the author of numerous articles and chapters on
the subjects of multilateral cooperation, state-building, and U.S.
foreign policy.

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"South Asian Bond Markets" Discussed on February 19, 2009 at 12:00 PM in J1-050

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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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REMINDER: Book Discussion "The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy" on February 4 at 12:30 PM in J1-050

Attendees will be eligible for a raffle drawing to win a complete set of the
Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy valued at $250.

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MODERATOR
Francisco Ferreira
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Ferreira is a lead economist with the Development Research Group
at the World Bank and one of the contributors to the Princeton
Encyclopedia of the World Economy. He has published a number of
articles on both the theory and empirics of income and wealth
distribution dynamics. His current research interests include the
measurement of inequality of opportunity; the design of cash
transfer programs; and the political economy consequences of high
inequality. Mr. Ferreira is a co-editor of the Journal of Economic
Inequality and an Editor of Economía (the Journal of the Latin
American and Caribbean Economic Association?LACEA). He was a
co-director of the team that wrote the World Development Report 2006
on Equity and Development, and is a former member of the Executive
Committee of LACEA. He was an assistant professor of economics at
the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) between 1999 and
2002, and has also taught economics at the LSE and summer schools in
Italy, Russia, and Spain. He has served on the Advisory Boards of
the Institute of Public Policy at the Universidad de las Americas in
Mexico and of the Institute for Labor and Social Studies (IETS) in
Brazil.

EDITORS
Kenneth Reinert
Professor, Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Reinert is professor of public policy at George Mason
University, where he directs the International Commerce and Policy
Program. He is also a Senior Fellow at Trade Partnership Worldwide.
Mr. Reinert has held the positions of Senior International Economist
at Kalamazoo College. He has consulted for the World Trade
Organization, the World Bank, the OECD Development Centre, and the
U.S. Department of Commerce. Mr. Reinert has published over 50
journal articles and book chapters in the areas of international
trade, economic development, and environmental policy. He has
co-edited Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook,
authored Windows on the World Economy: An Introduction to
International Economics, co-authored Globalization for Development,
and is Lead Editor-in-Chief of the two-volume Princeton Encyclopedia
of the World Economy.

Ramkishen Rajan
Associate Professor, Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Rajan is associate professor of public policy at George Mason
University and the author of Economic Globalization and Asia. Prior
to that, he was on the faculty at the University of Adelaide for
five years, where he remains a Visiting Associate Professor. He is
also currently an Associate Faculty at the Center for Global
Studies, George Mason University and an Adjunct Fellow at RIS (Delhi
based think tank). He has held one year visiting positions at the
National University of Singapore and at the Claremont McKenna
College, California. Additionally, he held shorter visiting
positions at the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research, National
University of Singapore, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
and Institute of Policy Studies in Singapore. Mr. Rajan specializes
in international economic policy with particular reference to the
developing Asia-Pacific region. He is on the Editorial Board of
various academic journals, including Development Policy Review,
North American Journal of Economics and Finance, International
Journal of Business, and elsewhere. Mr. Rajan has been a consultant
with the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the UN-ESCAP,
Development Bank of Singapore and other places.

DISCUSSANT
Peter Dougherty
Director, Princeton University Press
Mr. Dougherty began his publishing career as a college textbook
salesperson for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and was later named
sociology editor at Harcourt. Before coming to Princeton, he served
as an editor at McGraw-Hill, W.H. Freeman, St. Martin's Press, Basil
Blackwell and The Free Press. A member of the American Economic
Association, he is also active in the American Association of
University Presses. Mr. Dougherty writes and lectures about social
science publishing and occasionally about economic culture and the
culture of economics. His articles have appeared in The Financial
Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle Review of The Chronicle
of Higher Education, The Journal of Economic Literature, The Journal
of Scholarly Publishing, World Economics, The American Sociologist
and elsewhere.

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"Illuminating the Public Sphere in Post-Conflict and Fragile Environments" on February 17 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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CHAIR
Karin von Hippel
Co-Director, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and Senior Fellow,
International Security Program, CSIS
Ms. von Hippel is co-director of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS) Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project
and senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program. She
is currently on the World Economic Forum?s Global Agenda Council on
Fragile States and has direct experience in over two dozen conflict
zones. Previously, she was a senior research fellow at the Centre
for Defence Studies, King?s College London, and spent several years
working for the United Nations and the European Union in Somalia and
Kosovo. In 2004 and 2005, she participated in two major studies for
the UN?one on UN peacekeeping and the second on the UN humanitarian
system. During that period, she was also part of a small team funded
by USAID to investigate the development potential of Somali
remittances. In 2002, she advised the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development on the role of development cooperation
in discovering the root causes of terrorism. She also directed a
project on European counterterrorist reforms funded by the MacArthur
Foundation and edited the volume, Europe Confronts Terrorism
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). She was a member of Project Unicorn, a
counterterrorism police advisory panel in London. Additional
publications include Democracy by Force (Cambridge, 2000).

AUTHORS
Shanthi Kalathil
Democracy and Governance Specialist, CommGAP, World Bank
Ms. Kalathil is spearheading several projects focused on democracy,
good governance and the public sphere in CommGAP at the World Bank.
Ms. Kalathil was formerly a Senior Democracy Fellow based in the
Office of Democracy and Governance at USAID, where she provided
policy and programmatic advice on issues relating to civil society,
media, fragile states, and the Near East/Asia region, and traveled
on mission to Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Indonesia,
East Timor, and Cambodia. Prior to that, Ms. Kalathil was an
associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where
she focused on authoritarian political transitions in the
information age. Her 2003 co-authored book, Open Networks, Closed
Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule, examined
the political effect of the Internet on eight authoritarian
countries, including China and Cuba.

Henriette von Kaltenborn-Stachau
Post-Conflict Governance Specialist, CommGAP, World Bank
Ms. von Kaltenborn-Stachau is a Post-Conflict Governance Specialist
for CommGAP at the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms.
von Kaltenborn-Stachau worked for the United Nations' Department of
Political Affairs monitoring political developments and supporting
peace making and mediation efforts in Asia and the Middle East, as
well as contributing to the UN's peacebuilding policy agenda. Her
field postings included assignments with Timor-Leste?s Transitional
Administration where she focused on aid coordination efforts;
political rights monitoring in Cambodia; and years in the Middle
East where she served as Political and Senior Media Advisor to the
UN?s Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process.

DISCUSSANT
Ivan Sigal
Executive Director, Global Voices
Mr. Sigal is the Executive Director of Global Voices, a non-profit
online global citizens' media project founded at Harvard Law
School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Previously, he
spent ten years working in media development in the former Soviet
Union and Asia. As a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace
(USIP), Mr. Sigal focused on how increased media and information
access and participation using new technologies affect
conflict-prone areas. Prior to USIP, Mr. Sigal was the Internews
regional director for Asia, Central Asia, and Afghanistan. Mr. Sigal
has designed and implemented numerous media assistance projects,
including helping to create more than thirty Afghan-run radio
stations; a project to provide humanitarian information to victims
of the 2005 South Asian earthquake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir;
and a post-2004 tsunami humanitarian information radio program in
Sri Lanka.

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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
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and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
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