FPD Forum 2009 Feb. 24-26, 2009

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| Markets and Crises: What Next and How? |
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| Date: February 24-26, 2009 |
| Venue: Preston Auditorium, World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C. |
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| The forum will assess the current financial and economic crises and |
| their implications for policymakers, emerging markets, and World Bank |
| Group strategy. Robert B. Zoellick, President, World Bank, will open |
| the Forum. |
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| Guest speakers include: |
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| Award-winning author of The Black Swan |
| "The hottest thinker in the world.? ? London Times |
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| Tim Harford |
| Financial Times columnist & author of The Undercover Economist |
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| ?Much wit and wisdom.? ? The Houston Chronicle |
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| Other speakers include representatives from the Federal Reserve, |
| Moody?s, Oppenheimer Funds, the IMF, Banco Santander, Citigroup, Wells |
| Fargo, Ashmore Investment, Darby Overseas Investments and more... |
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| Other confirmed speakers: |
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| Private sector |
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| Vikram Akula, SKS Microfinance |
| Bob Annibale, Citi Microfinance |
| Marc Bernstein, Wells Fargo |
| Martha Cummings, Banco Santander |
| Peter Dey, Paradigm Capital Inc. |
| James Fry, LMC International |
| Thomas Glaessner, Citigroup |
| Oesmene Mandeng, Ashmore Investment Management |
| Gustavo Grobocopatel, Grupo Los Grobo |
| Adnan Hassan, Mecasa Advisors |
| Nick Hughes, Vodafone |
| Ira Millstein,Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
| Christian Strenger, DWS Investment GmbH |
| Mark Zandi, Moody?s Economy.com |
| Sara Zervos, Oppenheimer Funds |
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| Public sector, think tanks, and academia |
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| Daron Acemoglu, MIT |
| Amar Bhidé, Columbia University |
| Mauricio Cardenas, Brookings Institution |
| Esther Koimett, Secretary of Investment, Kenya |
| Alex Pollock, American Enterprise Institute |
| Antoinette Sayeh, IMF and former Minister of Finance, Liberia |
| Janine Thorne, Development Bank of South Africa |
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| Meet more than 50 reformers, regulators, bankers, fund managers, and|
| academics to discuss questions such as: |
| - What lessons do the current crises offer for emerging markets? |
| - Is there a tradeoff between financial access and stability? |
| - What?s next for bank ownership, regulation, and governance? |
| - Are insolvency regimes recession-ready? |
| - What?s next for housing finance? |
| - What's the outlook for China and India? |
| - Does reform of business regulation still matter? |
| - Can local bond markets cushion the fall? |
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| Catch up on innovative FPD projects spanning all regions and |
| business groups during our speed dating plenary |
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| And much more. See the draft agenda. |
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| Please register through LMS or FPDforum.worldbank.org |
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| External participation is by invitation only. Contact Ann-Marie Nguyen,|
| +1 202-458-1786(anguyen2@worldbank.org) for details or more |
| information. |
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| Please contact Ann-Marie Nguyen, +1 202-458-1786 for more information. |
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"Law and Capitalism" discussed on March 5, 2009 at 12 PM in J1-050

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CHAIR
Richard Messick
Senior Public Sector Specialist, World Bank
Mr. Messick began his career as a consultant on oil and gas
regulation in the United States, first for Senator Bill Brock and
later with the George Washington Energy Policy Research Project
where he co-authored a monograph and several journal articles on
competition in the U.S. energy industry. He joined the World Bank in
April 1997 as a Senior Public Sector Specialist in the Public Sector
and Governance Group to advise Bank staff on judicial reform. He now
advises on a broad range of governance and anticorruption issues

PRESENTING AUTHORS
Curtis J. Milhaupt
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Mr. Milhaupt is a full time faculty Professor at the Columbia Law
School, and Director of the Japanese Legal Studies Center. His
principal areas of research interest include comparative corporate
governance, Japanese and other Asian legal systems, law and
economics, and the relationship between legal institutions and
economic development. Mr. Milhaupt has published on a wide range of
topics, including corporate governance, organized crime, and the
market for legal talent.

Katharina Pistor
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Ms. Pistor is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She serves as
a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.
Ms. Pistor previously taught at the Kennedy School of Government and
has held research positions at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and at the
Harvard Institute for International Development in Cambridge, MA.
Her research focuses on comparative law and institutional
development with emphasis on corporate governance and financial
market development. She has conducted several studies on the legal
framework for the evolving corporate governance regime in transition
economies.

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, U.S. Senator
Chuck 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.

Paul Collier discusses "Wars, Guns, and Votes" on March 3 at IMF, HQ2 at 2 PM

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Paul Collier
Professor of Economics, Oxford University
Mr. Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for
the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. His areas of
research cover the causes and consequences of civil war, the effects
of aid, and the problems of democracy in low-income and
natural-resource-rich societies. From April 1998 to April 2003, he
was the Director of Development Research at the World Bank and has
been the advisor to the British government's Commission on Africa.
Mr. Collier is one of the world's leading experts on African
economies and is the author of The Bottom Billionand Breaking the
Conflict Trap, among other books.

CHAIR
Jeffrey Gutman
Vice President, OPCS, World Bank
Mr. Gutman is the Vice President and of the World Bank's Operational
Policy and Country Services Network. He joined the World Bank in
1979 as a Transport Economist in the Latin American and Caribbean
Region (LCR). In 1987, he was appointed Division Chief in the
Infrastructure/Urban Development Anchor. He subsequently served
in various managerial capacities in Infrastructure, Agriculture, and
Environment in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) and LCR regions. In
2001, he was selected as Director, Strategy and Operations, in the
EAP region. He served as Acting Vice President, EAP, from December
2005 to November 2006.

DISCUSSANTS
Sanjay Pradhan
Vice President, WBI, World Bank
Mr. Pradhan is the Vice President of the World Bank Institute. He
joined the World Bank in 1986 as a Young Professional working in the
Western and Eastern Africa Department. In 1991, he joined the Public
Economics Division in DEC, where he carried out pioneering work on
public expenditure analysis and budgetary institutions. From 1997
to 2002, he served first as Sector Manager in ECA PREM, and
subsequently in South Asia PREM based in the field. During this
period he also worked as a Principal Author of the World Development
Report 1997, The State in a Changing World. Appointed Director,
Public Sector Governance, in the PREM Network in 2002, Mr. Pradhan
has played a Bankwide leadership role in the design and
implementation of the Governance and Anticorruption (GAC) Strategy.

Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s Africa
Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, Mr. Devarajan has
been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics
in the Development Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of
the Human Development Network. More recently, Mr. Devarajan was
Chief Economist of the South Asia Region. Mr. Devarajan was the
Director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work
for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard
University ?s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author or
co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan?s research covers
public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the
environment, and general-equilibrium modeling of developing
countries.

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, U.S. Senator
Chuck 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.

REMINDER - "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.

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.