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SEMINAR INVITATION: World Bank East Asia Pacific Region Development Policy Series: "Indonesia: Weathering the Financial Crisis", March 4, 2009, 11:00-1:00pm, Room I-2-220

Colleagues,

Please join us for this discussion-the first of a new series organized by
the EAP Office of the Chief Economist and PREM Director for internal and
external audiences. This seminar will cover Indonesia's economic situation, the
Government of Indonesia's reform program and lessons drawn from the World Bank's
engagement through the proposed Public Expenditure Support Facility Development
Policy Loan with Deferred Drawdown Option. The World Bank's Indonesia team will
be presenting this Financing Package to the Board for approval on March 3.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Jim Adams
Vice-President, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank

World Bank- East Asia Pacific Region
Development Policy Speaker Series

Presents a Discussion on

"Indonesia: Weathering the Financial Crisis"

Speakers: Joachim von Amsberg, William Wallace, and P.S. Srinivas,
Jakarta Office, The World Bank

When: Wednesday, March 4, 2009; 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Where: Room I 2-220, The World Bank, 1850 Eye Street, N.W. Washington
D.C.

Summary

A decade after the East Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s Indonesia
achieved a strong turnaround in economic performance, a marked improvement in
governance and a transition to democratic rule. Growth averaged over 6 percent
in both 2007 and 2008, while poverty and unemployment declined. The domestic
reform effort combined with strong global growth and high commodity prices
bouyed domestic growth and reduced the government debt burden from over 80
percent of GDP in 2000 to just over 30 percent currently.

Now global economic forces, which Indonesia did not have any role in creating,
are threatening this progress. The worldwide flight to security has
dramatically affected financial markets and the access to and cost of financing.
The Government of Indonesia and Central Bank proactively moved to address
mounting problems with a program designed to reassure financial markets, sustain
vital public spending, crowd in investment and support trade.

The speakers will present the genesis of the current crisis, its impact and the
measures the Government is taking to face it and the role the World Bank is
playing in support of the Government's efforts. The presentation will cover
Indonesia's macroeconomic circumstances and challenges, the Government's reform
program and the Government of Indonesia's request to the World Bank, the Asian
Development Bank, and other partners to provide contingent financing to sustain
Indonesia's development agenda in the event that markets were inaccessible.

Presenters

Joachim von Amsberg currently manages the World Bank Office in Jakarta,
Indonesia and previously managed the World Bank Offices in the Philippines and
Brazil. He has a wide professional experience as an economist in the World Bank
in the areas of environmental management, rural and urban development, and
infrastructure with professional assignments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt,
India, Paraguay, and the Philippines.

William Wallace was previously an economic advisor to the Indonesia Government
for fifteen years in both the Indonesian Planning Agency and the Ministry of
Finance. Since October 2004, he has served as World Bank Lead Economist for
Indonesia in the World Bank Office, Jakarta, responsible for overseeing the
delivery of the Indonesian Team's analytical products and policy-based lending
as well as technical assistance and investment lending.

P.S. Srinivas is Lead Financial Economist, World Bank Office, Jakarta. Over
the past fifteen years at the World Bank, he has worked on finance and private
sector development issues in Latin America and East Asia. He previoulsy worked
at the Asian Development Bank and the private sector.

Moderator

Ahmad Ahsan
Lead Economist, Office of the Chief Economist and Director, PREM, East Asia and
Pacific Region, the World Bank

Chair

Jim Adams
Vice-President, East Asia and Pacific Region, the World Bank

The EAP Development Seminar Series is organized by the Chief Economist's Office
and PREM Director of the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank to
provide a platform for social scientists, policy makers, and development
practitioners to exchange views on development issues in East Asia and the
Pacific. Participants include members of think tanks, embassies, United States
agencies and international organizations mainly located in the Washington area.
The objective is develop an expanded community of knowledge on development
issues in the East Asia and Pacific region.

REMINDER: Presentation on "Development in Your Pocket: Improving Lives with Mobile Phones" on February 25 at 4:00 PM in J1-050

DUE TO HIGH DEMAND

*First Come, First Served*

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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
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.

IMPORTANT - ACTION REQUIRED: InfoShop Distribution List

Greetings,

The World Bank's InfoShop Events Program is in the process of revamping its database. As a valued contact on our distribution list, please take the time to inform us about whether or not you would like to continue receiving our event announcements. If so, please reply to this email and provide us with your NAME and AFFILIATION*. To continue receiving our invitations, you will need to return your response by Monday, March 23, 2009. Otherwise, if we do not hear from you will be automatically removed from the list.

For those not familiar with us, the InfoShop Events Program aims to provide a public forum for international development, where audiences can engage, discuss, and debate global issues with a wide range of notable figures. The program consists of more than 250 events in the past two years and is hosted in the InfoShop bookstore, which is the only publicly accessible space at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC .

If this email has been forwarded to you, please send a message with the subject line "Add to Mailing List" to infoshopevents@worldbank.org.

Best regards,
InfoShop Events Team

*By default, you will receive ALL invitations, unless you specify a specific area of interest in your response.  

REMINDER: "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 during which time he was
part of 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.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.