*CANCELLED* "The Life You Can Save" on March 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM in I1-200

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

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REMINDER: "Law & 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 University 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 University 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.

"The Life You Can Save" discussed on March 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM in I1-200

A Joint Event by the InfoShop and the Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Peter Singer
Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University:
Mr. Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton
University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than
thirty books, including Animal Liberation, widely considered to be
the founding statement of the animal rights movement, Practical
Ethics, One World: Ethics and Globalization, and The Life You Can
Save.

CHAIR
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi is Vice President of the World Bank?s Human Development
Network in Washington. D.C. She also chairs the Geneva-based
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and sits on the
Advisory Panel for the Bill and Melinda Gates Global Health Program.
Before joining the World Bank in February 2007, Ms. Phumaphi served
as Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health at the
World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, and represented the World
Health Organization on the Board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines
and Immunizations (GAVI). From 1994-2003, Ms. Phumaphi served
variously as a Member of Parliament, a Cabinet Minister with
responsibility for lands and housing?in the course of which she
developed Botswana?s first national housing policy?and Minister for
Health. During her tenure as Minister, Ms. Phumaphi restructured the
health ministry to make it more focused on results and on
implementing HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment services.

DISCUSSANT
Quentin Wodon
Adviser, Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics, Human
Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Wodon is the Adviser for the Development Dialogue on Values and
Ethics in the Human Development Network at the World Bank. After
completing business and engineering studies, Mr. Wodon worked for
the Belgian Foreign Trade Office and Procter & Gamble. In 1988, he
decided to leave a business career to work on poverty by joining the
volunteer corps of a grassroots and advocacy NGO. He joined the
World Bank ten years ago and now leads the World Bank's work on
issues related to faith, ethics, and development.

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

Directions to IMF Headquarters

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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.