REMINDER: "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 for 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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REMINDER: 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.

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
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
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Presentation on "Development in Your Pocket: Improving Lives with Mobile Phones" on February 25 at 4:00 PM in J1-050

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PANELISTS
Nick Hughes
Head of Global Payments, Vodafone
Mr. Hughes heads up the international mobile payments business unit
at Vodafone Group, a team created to build on the success of M-PESA
? Kenya?s first mobile payment system, which has seen significant
customer uptake over its first two years in operation (+5m
subscribers). Mr. Hughes started the M-PESA concept in 2004 through
some venture funding made available by the UK Government. The
system is now deployed in multiple markets and with a range of
partners. Additionally, the functionality is now extended beyond
simple person-to-person money transfer services, moving towards
broader m-commerce opportunities. This includes micro-credit,
salary and bill payment as well as cross border remittances. Mr.
Hughes joined Vodafone in 2001 from the large energy company BP,
where he worked on international projects, including a prototype
emissions trading system.

Katrin Verclas
Founder, MobileActive.org
Ms. Verclas is a recognized expert in mobile communications for
social impact. She is the co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org,
a global network of practitioners using mobile phones for social
impact. She is also a principal at Calder Strategies, focusing on
mobile strategy, impact evaluation, effectiveness and ROI
assessment, and interactive capacity building. Ms. Verclas is a
co-author of Wireless Technology for Social Change, a report on
trends in mobile use by NGOs with the UN Foundation and Vodafone
Group Foundation, and author of A Mobile Voice: The Use of Mobile
Phones in Citizen Media. Her background is in IT management, IT in
social change organizations, and in philanthropy. She has led
several nonprofit organizations, including a position as the
Executive Director of NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network, the
national association of IT professionals working in the more than
one million nonprofit organizations in the United States. Previously
, she served as a program officer at the Proteus Fund, which focused
on the use of technology in civic and democratic participation and
in government transparency. Ms. Verclas serves on the boards of
Mobile Voter and Ushahidi.

Holly Ladd
Vice President, AED Satellife
Ms. Ladd has 25 years of experience in developing, managing, and
implementing projects and overseeing diverse staff and consultants.
As Director of AED-Satellife, Ms. Ladd has pioneered the use of
mobile technologies in remote health settings. She has worked with
a wide spectrum of organizations that include USAID, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, EngenderHealth, WHO, World Bank, and
the Red Cross. In these various organizations, she developed
low-cost, state-of-the art technology solutions that address health
information needs in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa,
Nepal, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Bolivia, and Mozambique. Her technical
areas of expertise include health information management systems
planning and integration; service provision protocol development;
curriculum and training materials development and implementation;
development of systems for management of training along with
monitoring and evaluation.

DISCUSSANT
Jesse Moore
Director, Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA) Development
Mr. Moore is the Director of the GSMA Development Fund, with
specific focus on mServices. Previously, he worked with Vodafone on
M-PESA, a mobile payment service targeting Kenya?s un-banked
population. From 2002-2006, he founded and directed CARE Enterprise
Partners, the division of the large NGO that provides venture
capital to businesses in the developing world. During this period,
Mr. Moore helped start base of the pyramid businesses in Bangladesh,
Peru and Kenya, and spoke about social investment at dozens of
international conferences and business schools. He has also worked
as a management consultant at Monitor Company.

CHAIR
Gautam Ivatury
Strategic Advisor, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
Mr. Ivatury is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for
International Development (Washington), and a Strategic Advisor to
CGAP, the global microfinance resource center housed at the World
Bank. From 2003 through 2008, he led CGAP's work in microfinance and
technology, including setting up and managing a program co-funded by
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to demonstrate the potential
of mobile phones and branchless banking for the poor. Before joining
CGAP in 2003, Mr. Ivatury helped manage SKS Microfinance, India's
largest microfinance institution (now serving 5m households), and
founded a company to connect U.S. universities and foreign students
through the Internet. He has worked in investment and commercial
banking in the electric power industry at Donaldson Lufkin &
Jenrette and the International Finance Corporation. Mr. Ivatury
writes on microfinance and technology at http://technology.cgap.org.

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,
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"Development Redefined" discussed on February 24 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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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, where he played a pivotal
role in 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
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
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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REMINDER: "Conditional Cash Transfers" discussed on February 10 at 10:30 AM in H Auditorium

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CHAIR
Justin Lin
Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, Development Economics,
World Bank
Mr. Lin took up this position in 2008 after serving for 15 years as
Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic
Research (CCER) at Peking University. Among his many public roles in
China, Mr. Lin served as a deputy of China?s People?s Congress and
Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.
He has served on several national and international committees,
where he has led groups and councils on development policy,
technology, and environment.

AUTHORS
Ariel Fiszbein
Chief Economist, Human Development Network,World Bank
For several years, Mr. Fiszbein coordinated the World Bank?s
Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) initiative, and oversaw the
institution's expanding efforts to build solid evidence on effective
development programs. He has been Country Economist for Colombia,
Coordinator of the Poverty Reduction program at the World Bank
Institute, and Country Sector Leader for Human Development for the
Southern Cone countries in Latin America. Between 2003 -2005, he was
Lead Economist in the Human Development Department in Latin America
and the Caribbean, where he led a large program of analytical and
strategy work. He has published extensively on issues of social
policy, including Citizens, Politicians, and Providers : The Latin
American Experience with Service Delivery Reform (2005),.

Norbert Schady
Senior Research Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Schady works predominantly in Latin America and East Asia and
does research on early childhood development, education, health,
safety nets, and the impact of macroeconomic shocks on human capital
outcomes. Co-authored work on education, Closing the Gap in
Education and Technology (2003), urges Latin American and Caribbean
governments to address the region's deficits in skills and
technology, thereby boosting productivity and improving economic
growth prospects.

MODERATOR
Martin Ravallion
Director, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Ravallion is Director of the Development Research Group. He has
held various position in the World Bank, since joining as an
economist in 1988. He has written three books and over 170 papers on
poverty and policies for fighting it. He currently serves on the
editorial boards of ten economic journals, is a Senior Fellow of the
Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, a founding
council member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality,
and he serves on the advisory board of the International Poverty
Research Center.

DISCUSSANTS
Tina Rosenberg
Contributing Writer, The New York Times
Ms. Rosenberg is a Contributing Writer for the New York Times
magazine specializing in public health, poverty and human rights.
Before that, she was an Editorial Writer for the Times on the same
subjects. She has written two books, Children of Cain: Violence and
the Violent in Latin America, and The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's
Ghosts After Communism, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the
National Book Award. She is working on another book, on behavior
change.

Santiago Levy
Vice President, Sector & Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank
Mr. Levy became the Vice President for Sector and Knowledge in.
2008. Prior to that, he served as General Manager and Chief
Economist for the IDB Research Department. Previously, he was
General Director at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).
Under his tenure, he promoted changes to the Social Security Act to
increase transparency and accountability in IMSS finances and create
long-term reserves. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Levy served as the Deputy
Minister at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico,
becoming the main architect of the renowned social program
Progresa-Oportunidades that benefits the poor. Mr. Levy has advised
several governments and international organizations and has held
several teaching positions, including faculty positions at the
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo of Mexico and Boston University.

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
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.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.