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REMINDER: "The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education" discussed on April 29 at 12 PM in J1-050

2009-04-28T14:46:00.000-07:00

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CHAIR
Elizabeth King
Director of Education, World Bank
Ms. King is Director of Education in the Human Development Network
of the World Bank. She is the Bank's senior spokesperson for global
policy and strategic education issues in developing countries. Until
January 2009, she was a manager in the Bank's research department,
heading the team that focuses on human development issues. She has
published on topics such as household investments in human capital;
the linkages between education, poverty and economic development;
gender issues in development, especially women's education;
education finance, and the impact of decentralization reforms. Since
joining the Bank, she has contributed to public expenditure reviews,
country economic assessments, policy analyses of the human
development sectors, and impact evaluations of policies and
programs. She was the Lead Economist for the World Bank's human
development department for East Asian countries for three years, and
served as co-author of three World Development Reports.

AUTHOR
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Lead Education Economist, World Bank
Mr. Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World Bank. He
specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based
management, demand-side financing, and public-private partnerships.
He managed education lending operations and analytical work programs
in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, as well as a regional research
project on the socioeconomic status of Latin America?s Indigenous
Peoples, published as Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human
Development in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He is one
of the main authors of the report, Lifelong Learning in the Global
Knowledge Economy (World Bank, 2003). Mr. Patrinos has many
publications in the academic and policy literature, with more than
40 journal articles. He is co-author of the books: Policy Analysis
of Child Labor: A Comparative Study, Decentralization of Education:
Demand-Side Financing, and Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin
America: An Empirical Analysis with George Psacharopoulos.

DISCUSSANTS
Paul Peterson
Professor of Government, Harvard University
Mr. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and
Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at
Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University, and Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, a
journal of opinion and research on education policy. Mr. Peterson
is the author or editor of over one hundred articles and
thirty-five-plus books, including his most recent title School
Choice International: Exploring Public-Private Partnerships (MIT,
2009). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the National Academy of Education. Mr. Peterson is a member of
the independent review panel advising the Department of Education?s
evaluation of the No Child Left Behind law. The Editorial Projects
in Education Research Center reported that Peterson?s studies on
school choice and vouchers were among the country?s most influential
studies of education policy.

Tim Emmett
Development Director, CfBT Education Trust
Mr. Emmett is Development Director at CfBT Education Trust and a
specialist in the design and delivery of PPPs as part of school
system reform programmes. CfBT Education Trust is one of the world's
leading international not-for-profit education services companies
with a turnover of £140 million sterling. CfBT implements major
reform programmes for governments; designs and implements school
inspection and evaluation systems; delivers specialist services to
learners; manages school improvement services at local level and
owns, and operates a network of schools and nurseries. Unique
amongst its competitors, CfBT invests its surpluses (currently over
£1 million sterling) in a research and development programme that is
committed to exploring innovations and options around
diversification, education services market creation, and
public/private partnerships in the provision of education. Mr.
Emmett leads the company's team in the creation of and entry to new
markets. Prior to joining CfBT, he was an educator, university
manager, and change consultant.

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About the Publication
The provision of schooling is largely provided and financed by
governments. However, due to unmet demand for education coupled with
shrinking government budgets, the public sector in several parts of
the world is developing innovative partnerships with the private
sector. Private education encompasses a wide range of providers
including for-profit schools (that operate as enterprises),
religious schools, non-profit schools run by NGOs, publicly funded
schools operated by private boards, and community owned schools. In
other words, there is a market for education.
For additional information, please click here.

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.

REMINDER: Nicholas Stern launches "The Global Deal" on Tuesday, April 28 at 4:30 PM in JB1-080

2009-04-27T14:32:00.000-07:00

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AUTHOR
Nicholas Stern
Professor in Economics and Government & Chair
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, London School of
Economics and Political Science
Mr. Stern is the IG Patel Chair and Chairman of the Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and
Director of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics
and Political Science. As Baron Stern of Brentford, he is a member
of the UK House of Lords. He was Chief Economist and Senior Vice
President of the World Bank from 2000-2003, head of the UK
Government Economic Service from 2003-2007, and head of the Stern
Review on the Economics of Climate Change from 2005-2007. His career
from 1970 to 1994 was as an academic economist, including teaching
and research positions in MIT. His research and publications have
focused on the economics of climate change, economic development and
growth, economic theory, tax reform, public policy, and the role of
state and economies in transition.

CHAIR
Hartwig Schafer
Director, Strategy and Operations, Sustainable Development Network,
World Bank
Mr. Schafer, a German national, has worked for over 18 years in
professional and managerial positions in the World Bank and the
European Commission. He is currently Director of Strategy and
Operations in the Sustainable Development (SDN) Network Vice
Presidency. Previously, Mr. Schafer held the position of Director
for Operations and Strategy in the Africa Regional Vice President's
Office overseeing the implementation of the Africa Action Plan,
which focused on scaling up development impact across the
Sub-Saharan Africa. He also has served as Country Director for
Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe and was Chief Administrative Officer for
the Africa Region.

DISCUSSANT
Marianne Fay
Co-Director, World Development Report 2010, World Bank
Ms. Fay is the co-director of the World Development Report 2010 on
climate change. Prior to this, she was a Lead Economist in the
Office of the Chief Economist for Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
where she worked on infrastructure and more recently, adaptation to
climate change. She previously was the Lead Economist for the
Finance, Infrastructure, and Private Sector Development Department
of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World Bank.
She has also worked on energy and urbanization in Sub-Saharan
Africa. Her research has mostly focused on the role of
infrastructure and urbanization in development, and more recently on
urban poverty issues. She is the author of a number of articles on
these topics and has recently published books on The Urban Poor in
Latin America and Infrastructure in Latin America.
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The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities" launched on Wednesday, May 6th from 3-5 PM in J1-050

2009-04-24T13:54:00.000-07:00

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CHAIR
Elizabeth King
Director of Education, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. King is Director of Education in the Human Development Network
of the World Bank. She is the World Bank's senior spokesperson for
global policy and strategic education issues in developing
countries. Until January 2009, she was a manager in the World Bank's
research department, heading the team that focuses on human
development issues. She has published on topics such as household
investments in human capital; the linkages between education,
poverty and economic development; gender issues in development,
especially women's education; education finance, and the impact of
decentralization reforms. Since joining the World Bank, she has
contributed to public expenditure reviews, country economic
assessments, policy analyses of the human development sectors, and
impact evaluations of policies and programs. She was the Lead
Economist for the World Bank's human development department for East
Asian countries for three years, and served as co-author of three
World Development Reports.

AUTHOR
Jamil Salmi
Tertiary Education Coordinator, Human Development Network, World
Bank
Mr. Salmi, a Moroccan education economist, is the coordinator of the
World Bank's tertiary education program. He is the author of
Establishing World Class Universities and the principal author of
the Tertiary Education Strategy entitled, Constructing Knowledge
Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education. In the past
fifteen years, he has provided policy and technical advice on
tertiary education reform to the governments of over 35 countries
around the world. Mr. Salmi has also guided the strategic planning
efforts of several public and private universities in Colombia,
Kenya, Mexico, and Peru. Before moving to the Human Development
Vice-Presidency in July 2001, Mr. Salmi worked for 7 years in the
World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean region (as Education Sector
Manager during the last two years in LAC); in the Education and
Social Policy Department of the World Bank (1990-1993) and also
prepared the World Bank's first Policy Paper on Higher Education
(1994). Prior to joining the World Bank, he was a professor of
education economics at the National Institute of Education Planning
in Rabar, Morocco. Mr. Salmi is the author of five books and
numerous articles on education and development issues.

DISCUSSANTS
Richard Miller
President, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Mr. Miller was appointed President and first employee of the
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering on February 1, 1999, where
he also holds an appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Before joining Olin College, he served as Dean of Engineering at the
University of Iowa from 1992-99. He spent the previous 17 years on
the engineering faculties at the University of Southern California
and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr. Miller has
authored about 100 technical publications in the field of applied
mechanics, and has won five awards for teaching excellence. He is a
member of the governance boards for two independent colleges and one
engineering services corporation, and serves on several advisory
boards for non-profit organizations and universities. He is a member
of the Visiting Committee for the School for Engineering and Applied
Sciences of Harvard University, and the Higher Education Working
Group of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He serves as
a consultant to the World Bank in education and recently chaired the
Association of Independent Technological Universities.

Philip Altbach
Professor of Higher Education & Director of the Center for
International Higher Education, Boston College
Mr. Altbach is the Director of the Center for International Higher
Education and the J. Donald Monan, SJ professor of higher education
in the Lynch School of Education. He has extensive experience in the
field of comparative and international higher education. He is
editor of The International Academic Profession (1997: Carnegie),
co-editor of American Higher Education in the 21st Century (1997:
Johns Hopkins, revised edition in press), former editor of the ASHE
journal, The Review of Higher Education, and the editor of
International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia, (2 volumes). He is
author of Comparative Higher Education, Higher Education in the
Third World, and other books. His most recent book is Asian
Universities: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). He co-edited In Defense of
American Higher Education. with Patricia Gumport and Bruce
Johnstone, published in 2001. His research interests include
comparative education, history and philosophy of higher education,
international education, student political activism, the academic
profession, and knowledge networks.

About the publication
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important
contribution that high performance, world-class universities make to
global competitiveness and economic growth. There is growing
recognition, in both industrial and developing countries, of the
need to establish one or more world-class universities that can
compete effectively with the best of the best around the world.
Contextualizing the drive for world-class higher education
institutions and the power of international and domestic university
ranking, this book outlines possible strategies and pathways for
establishing globally competitive universities and explores the
challenges, costs, and risks involved. Its findings will be of
particular interest to policy makers, university leaders,
researchers, and development practitioners. For additional
information and access to the publication, please click here.

REMINDER - "Moving Out of Poverty " launched on April 27 at 12 PM in Preston Auditorium

2009-04-24T13:43:00.000-07:00

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CHAIR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Network,
World Bank
Mr. Leipziger is the Vice President of the Poverty Reduction &
Economic Management Network (PREM) at the World Bank since 2004. As
the Head of the PREM Network, which has nearly 1000 professionals,
he reports to the President of the World Bank, and provides
leadership for the institution?s strategic work on growth and
poverty reduction across the regional PREM units. He also serves as
the focal point for economic policy, debt, trade, gender and
governance issues and for the World Bank?s dialogue with key partner
institutions?including the IMF, WTO, OECD, and the EU. In addition,
he serves as Head of the World Bank's Delegation to Hong Kong Trade
Ministerial, Head of the World Bank's Delegation to G8 Ministerials,
which is responsible for crisis analysis and policy coordination.

AUTHORS
Deepa Narayan
Project Director, Moving Out of Poverty Study, World Bank
Ms. Narayan is project director of the 15-country World Bank study
entitled, Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy,
and Growth from the Bottom Up. From 2002 through 2008, she served as
senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction & Economic Management (PREM)
Network of the World Bank, first in the Poverty Reduction Group and
subsequently in the vice president?s office within PREM. She has
development experience in Asia and Africa while working across
sectors for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and
the United Nations system. Her areas of expertise include
participatory development, community-driven development, and social
capital, as well as use of these concepts to create wealth for poor
people. Her recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty:
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007);
Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work (with Elena Glinskaya,
World Bank 2007); Measuring Empowerment:Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives (World Bank, 2005); Empowerment and Poverty Reduction:
A Sourcebook (World Bank 2002); and the three-volume Voices of the
Poor; series (Oxford University Press 2000, 2001, 2002).

Lant Pritchett
Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University)
Mr. Pritchett is professor of the practice of economic development
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He is also a nonresident fellow of the Center for Global
Development, a senior fellow of BREAD (Bureau for Research and
Economic Analysis of Development), co-editor of the Journal of
Development Economics, and a consultant to Google.org. He held a
number of positions at the World Bank between 1988 and 2007, working
in Indonesia and India as well as in Washington, DC. He has
participated in teams that produced a number of World Bank reports,
including World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for
Development; Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn?t, and Why
(1998); Better Health Systems for India?s Poor: Findings, Analysis,
and Options (2003); World Development Report 2004: Making Services
Work for Poor People; and Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning
from a Decade of Reforms (2005). He has authored or co-authored more
than 50 papers published in refereed journals, as chapters in books,
or as articles. His monograph, Let Their People Come: Breaking the
Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility, was published by Center for
Global Development in 2006.

DISCUSSANT
Geoffrey Lamb
Managing Director, Public Policy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mr. Lamb is Managing Director for Public Policy at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation (Washington, DC office). In this position,
he serves as the senior advisor on international policy development
and leads a team that partners with public policy issues in each of
the foundation's three program areas (Global Health, Global
Development and U.S. Programs) to help build strategic relationships
that are critical to the foundation's work. Before joining the
foundation, Mr. Lamb held several senior development positions at
the World Bank, most recently as Vice President, Concessional
Finance and Global Partnerships. An Irish citizen, he was born in
South Africa and lived in the UK, where he was subsequently a Fellow
and Deputy Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the
University of Sussex.

REMINDER - "Moving Out of Poverty " launched on April 27 at 12 PM in Preston Auditorium

2009-04-24T13:34:00.000-07:00

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REMINDER: Nobel Laureate Edward Prescott discusses "Time Inconsistent Traps: Bailouts for all when credible to none" on Friday, April 24 at 2:00 PM in I2-250

2009-04-23T07:48:00.000-07:00

The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Distinguished Seminar Series

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PRESENTER
Edward Prescott
2004 Economics Nobel Laureate
Arizona State University (Tempe) and Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis
Mr. Prescott?s pioneering contributions to the field of economics
have deeply affected how economists think about business cycles and
design economic policy. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
describes his work as ?not only transforming economic research, but
also profoundly influencing the practice of economic policy in
general, and monetary policy in particular." Mr. Prescott?s research
called into question Keynesian theories ? currently witnessing a
resurgence ? related to economic booms and busts. Mr. Prescott has
held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota and University
of Chicago. His is also co-author of the 2000 book Barriers to
Riches, which argues that barriers to technology adoption are the
dominant cause of the large differences in standards of living
across countries.

DISCUSSANTS
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s Africa
Region, and also maintains a popular web blog open to public
opinion: http://africacan.worldbank.org/. He 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. His research covers public economics,
trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and
general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.

Vikram Nehru
Director, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, East Asia and
Pacific Region, World Bank
Mr. Nehru is the Director and Acting Chief Economist in the East
Asia Region of the World Bank. He was formerly the Director of the
World Bank?s Economic Policy and Debt Department, which covers
macroeconomic and debt issues for developing countries. He was also
the former Lead Economist for the World Bank's Indonesia Program
during and after the East Asian Crisis (1997-2002) and led most of
crisis and post-crisis economic dialogue for the World Bank in
Indonesia. His latest work includes, When is External Debt
Sustainable? China 2020: Development Challenges in the New Century,
and Indonesia: Imperative for Reform.

MODERATOR
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery, World Bank
Mr. Sanghi is leading the ongoing World Bank?UN Assessment on the
Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction. This event is part of a
distinguished seminar series designed to contribute ideas by
individuals such as Kenneth Arrow, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Kahneman,
Howard Kunreuther, Wangari Maathai, William Nordhaus, Edward
Prescott, Richard Posner, Thomas Schelling, Martin Weitzman, and
others on selected themes of the World Bank?UN Assessment. For more
information about the Assessment, please contact Mr. Sanghi at
asanghi@worldbank.org.

About The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
(GFDRR)
GFDRR is a partnership of the International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction (ISDR) system to support the implementation of the Hyogo
Framework for Action (HFA). The HFA, endorsed by the United Nations
General Assembly in Resolution 60/195, is the primary international
agreement for disaster reduction. One hundred sixty-eight (168)
countries and multilateral organizations including the World Bank
and the United Nations (UN) system participated in the UN World
Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in January
2005. The principal strategic goal of the HFA is to effectively
integrate, in a coherent manner, disaster risk considerations into
sustainable development policies, planning, programming, and
financing at all levels of government.
For more information, visit GFDRR.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.

Nicholas Stern launches "The Global Deal" on Tuesday, April 28 at 4:30 PM in JB1-080

2009-04-21T15:31:00.000-07:00

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"The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education" discussed on April 29 at 12 PM in J1-050

2009-04-20T15:05:00.000-07:00

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Neil McIntosh
Chief Executive, CfBT Education Trust
Mr. McIntosh is the Chief Executive of CfBT, Britain?s largest
educational charity. Since he became Chief Executive in the early
1990s, CfBT has been transformed from a £7.4 million p.a. manager of
English Language programs to become the world's leading not for
profit international education consultancy with a turnover of £100
million p.a. In his role, Mr. McIntosh is a leading contributor to
the debate about diversification and public/private partnerships in
the provision of education. Prior to joining CfBT, Mr. McIntosh was
Director of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Before this, he was
Director of Shelter, Britain?s pre-eminent charity for homeless
people. He created, and was the first Chairman, of Homeless
International, a specialist NGO, which initiates and finances
innovative settlement projects and encourages inter agency
cooperation in the South. Mr. McIntosh is the Chairman of the UK
Freedom of Information Campaign. He has written extensively on
industrial relations, community development, and economics of
housing.

About the Publication
The provision of schooling is largely provided and financed by
governments. However, due to unmet demand for education coupled with
shrinking government budgets, the public sector in several parts of
the world is developing innovative partnerships with the private
sector. Private education encompasses a wide range of providers
including for-profit schools (that operate as enterprises),
religious schools, non-profit schools run by NGOs, publicly funded
schools operated by private boards, and community owned schools. In
other words, there is a market for education.
For additional information, please click here.

REMINDER: "AIDS - Is It a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence?" discussed on Monday, April 20 at 12 PM in J1-050

2009-04-17T12:04:00.000-07:00

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MODERATOR
Julie McLaughlin
Sector Manager, Health, Nutrition, and Population, South Asia
Region, World Bank

PRESENTERS
Mariam Claeson,
Program Coordinator, South Asia Regional AIDS Team, World Bank

Mead Over
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

DISCUSSANTS
Robert Clay
Director, The Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID

Debrework Zewdie
Director, Global AIDS Unit, World Bank

"Hardware and Software Industries in China and India" discussed on April 30 at 12 PM in J1-050

2009-04-16T13:43:00.000-07:00

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OPENING REMARKS
Mohsen Khalil
Director, Global Information and Communication Technologies, World
Bank Group
Mr. Khalil is Director of the Global Information and Communication
Technologies department, a joint department of the World Bank and
International Finance Corporation (IFC). Prior to this appointment,
he held positions at IFC as Director of Central Asia, Middle East
and North Africa Department. He also served as Chief Investment
Officer at the Telecommunications, Transport, and Utilities
Department. Previous to this, while also a Professor of Business at
the American University of Beirut, Mr. Khalil served as Chief
Adviser to the Lebanese Minister of Post and Telecommunications; as
Board Director of Lebanon's Autonomous Fund for Housing; and as
advisor to various governments and major corporations in the Middle
East. He also worked with McKinsey & Co. Management Consultants,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and MITRE Corporation.

AUTHORS
Neil Gregory
Adviser, Financial and Private Sector Development, World Bank Group
Office of the Chief Economist, IFC
Mr. Gregory is Adviser to the Vice President for Financial and
Private Sector Development at the World Bank. He was previously a
manager in the South Asia Department of the IFC. He has written on
the emergence of the private sector in China and on foreign direct
investment to developing countries and has lectured on the growth of
the private sector in China and India. He began his career as an
economist with the UK government, and served as adviser to the UK
Executive Director of the World Bank Group and IMF from 1993?96.

Stanley Nollen
Professor of International Business, McDonough School of Business,
Georgetown University
Mr. Nollen is professor of International Business at the Georgetown
University McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC. His
research includes studies of the growth, intellectual property, and
export performance of firms in the information technology industry
in India along with the performance of firms in emerging market
economies. He has published books and articles in leading journals.
He teaches international business and economics, and has conducted
study programs and executive education courses in Belgium, the Czech
Republic, Croatia, India, República Bolivariana de Venezuela, and
Vietnam and has twice received Fulbright scholar awards.

Stoyan Tenev
Chief Evaluation Officer and Head of Macroevaluations, Independent Evaluation
Group, IFC,
Mr. Tenev is Chief Evaluation Officer and Head of Macroevaluations
at the Independent Evaluation Group of the International Finance
Corporation. He was previously Lead Economist for East Asia and
Pacific at the IFC. His research includes books and articles on
China, East Asian economies, transition economies, economic reforms,
private sector development, and corporate governance.

DISCUSSANTS
Shahid Yusuf
Economic Adviser, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World
Bank Institute
Mr. Yusuf is Economic Adviser at the World Bank Institute at the
World Bank and currently manages a major project on East Asia's
Prospects. He was the Director for the 1999/2000 WDR and has held
positions in the Bank's regional and research departments. Mr.
Yusuf?s most recent publications include: Post Industrial East Asian
Cities co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima (2006); Dancing with Giants
co-edited with L. Alan Winters ( 2007); How Universities Promote
Economic Growth co-edited with Kaoru Nabeshima (2007); China
Urbanizes co-edited with Tony Saich (2008); Growing Industrial
Clusters in Asia co-edited with Kaoru Nabeshima and Shoichi
Yamashita (2008); Accelerating Catch-Up: Tertiary Education and
Growth in Africa co-authored with William Saint and Kaoru Nabeshima
(2008); and Development Economics through the Decades (World Bank
2009).

Albert Keidel
Senior Associate, China Program, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
Mr. Keidel joined the Carnegie Endowment in September 2004, after
serving as acting director and deputy director for the Office of
East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. His work
at the Endowment focuses on issues relating to China?s economic
system reforms, macroeconomy, regional development, and poverty
reduction strategy. Before joining Treasury in 2001, he covered
economic trends, system reforms, poverty, and country risk as a
senior economist in the World Bank office in Beijing. Mr. Keidel has
worked in China, Japan, and Korea and taught graduate economics
courses on China, Japan, and economic development. He also currently
teaches a Georgetown University graduate course on China?s economy.

"Moving Out of Poverty " launched on April 27 at 12 PM in Preston Auditorium

2009-04-14T15:34:00.000-07:00

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AUTHORS
Deepa Narayan
Project Director, Moving Out of Poverty Study, World Bank
Ms. Narayan is project director of the 15-country World Bank study
en.titled, Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy,
and Growth from the Bottom Up. From 2002 through 2008, she served as
senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction & Economic Management (PREM)
Network of the World Bank, first in the Poverty Reduction Group and
subsequently in the vice president?s office within PREM. She has
development experience in Asia and Africa while working across
sectors for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and
the United Nations system. Her areas of expertise include
participatory development, community-driven development, and social
capital, as well as use of these concepts to create wealth for poor
people. Her recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty:
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007);
Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work (with Elena Glinskaya,
World Bank 2007); Measuring Empowerment:Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives (World Bank, 2005); Empowerment and Poverty Reduction:
A Sourcebook (World Bank 2002); and the three-volume Voices of the
Poor; series (Oxford University Press 2000, 2001, 2002).

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2009-04-14T14:27:00.000-07:00

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REMINDER: Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, and Thomas Friedman discuss "When Nature's Forces Meet Degraded Environments" on Tuesday, April 14th at 2:00 PM in IFC auditorium

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The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
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PRESENTER
Wangari Maathai
Founder, The Greenbelt Movement & 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Ms. Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2004 for her contribution to sustainable development,
democracy, and peace. Ms. Maathai, who was born in Nyeri, Kenya, is
the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate
degree. She was active in the National Council of Women of Kenya in
1976-87 and was its chairman in 1981-87. It was while she served in
the National Council of Women that she introduced the idea of
planting trees with the people in 1976 and continued to develop it
into a broad-based, grassroots organization, whose main focus is the
planting of trees with women groups in order to conserve the
environment and improve their quality of life. Through her work with
the Green Belt Movement, she has assisted these groups in planting
more than 20 million trees on their farms, schools, and church
compounds. Her new book, The Challenge for Africa, will be released
in April 2009.

DISCUSSANTS
Bruce Babbitt
Chairman of the Board, World Wildlife Fund
Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona
Mr. Babbitt is Chairman of the Board at the World Wildlife Fund. He
formerly served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to
2001, leading the country in landmark efforts, including the
creation of a forest plan for the Pacific Northwest, restoration of
the Florida Everglades, passage of the California Desert Protection
Act, and legislation for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Before
President Clinton appointed him to national service, Mr. Babbitt
served as Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and as Attorney
General of the state from 1975 to 1978. He wrote Cities in the
Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America (2005), where he
lays out a new vision of land use in America, addressing a breadth
of issues from protection of the Everglades to restoration of tall
grass prairie in Iowa to water development in Arizona, wolf
restoration in Yellowstone, grazing rights in the Southwest, and dam
removal across the country.

Thomas Friedman
Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
Mr. Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New
York Times in 1981. He won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary,
his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. He has reported on the
Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic
politics, foreign policy and international economics. He has
authored a number of books, including The Lexus and the Olive Tree:
Understanding Globalization (1999) and The World is Flat: A Brief
History of the Twenty-first Century (2005). His latest book, Hot,
Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can
Renew America (2008), brings a fresh outlook to the crises of
destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.

MODERATOR
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery, World Bank
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Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction. This event is part of a
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Howard Kunreuther, William Nordhaus, Richard Posner, Thomas
Schelling, Martin Weitzman, and others on selected themes of the
World Bank?UN Assessment. The next speaker is Edward Prescott, the
2004 Economics Nobel Laureate, on April 24. For more information
about the Assessment, please contact Mr. Sanghi at
asanghi@worldbank.org.

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2009-04-13T09:25:00.000-07:00

The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
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"The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education" discussed on April 29 at 12 PM in J1-050

2009-04-09T12:54:00.000-07:00

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Edward Prescott (Nobel Laureate) discusses "Time Inconsistent Traps: Bailouts for all when credible to none" on Friday, April 24 at 2:00 PM in I2-250

2009-04-08T08:43:00.000-07:00

The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Distinguished Seminar Series

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REMINDER: Matthew Bishop of the Economist Magazine discusses "Philanthrocapitalism" on April 8th at 3 PM in JB1-080

2009-04-07T08:27:00.000-07:00

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MODERATOR
Daniel Runde
Head of Partnership Development, International Finance Corporation,
World Bank Group
Mr. Runde is Head of Partnership Development for the International
Finance Corporation. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Runde was Director of
the Office of Global Development Alliances (GDA) at the U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID). From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Runde
was a Senior Advisor at the GDA Secretariat. Prior to this, Mr.
Runde was an Assistant Vice President for Business Development with
Citigroup in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Previously, he worked for
BankBoston Argentina's corporate foundation. Earlier in his career,
he was an investment banker with Alex Brown & Sons. Before his
government service, he served on various boards, including Baltimore
Reads, The Harvard Cooperative Society, Grupo Innova, and the
American Society of the River Plate. He currently serves in a
personal capacity on the board of the Society for International
Development?s Washington chapter.

AUTHOR
Matthew Bishop
Chief Business Writer/US Business Editor, The Economist
Mr. Bishop is Chief Business Writer/US Business Editor of The
Economist, based in New York. He was previously The Economist's
London-based Business Editor, and has also served as its New York
Bureau Chief. Mr. Bishop is the author of several Economist special
survey supplements, including most recently The Business of Giving,
which looks at the industrial revolution taking place in
philanthropy; Kings of Capitalism, which anticipated and analyzed
the recent boom in private equity; and Capitalism and its Troubles,
an examination of the impact of problems such as the collapse of
Enron. Before joining The Economist, Mr. Bishop was on the faculty
of London Business School, where he co-authored three books for the
Oxford University Press. Mr. Bishop has served as a member of the
Sykes Commission on the investment system in the 21st Century. He
was also on the Advisors Group of the United Nations International
Year of Microcredit 2005. He has been honored as a Young Global
Leader by the World Economic Forum.

DISCUSSANTS
Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development, Brookings
Institution
Mr. Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for
Development at Brookings Institution. He is a member of the Working
Group for the Commission on Growth and Development, which is chaired
by Michael Spence. Previously, Mr. Kharas served as Chief Economist
for the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific region, and as Director
for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private
Sector Development, responsible for the World Bank's advice on
structural and economic policies, fiscal issues, debt, trade,
governance, and financial markets. In 1990-91, he was a Senior
Partner with Jeff Sachs and Associates, advising governments in
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on transition. His research
interests are now focused on global trends, East Asian growth and
development, and international aid for the poorest countries.

Carol Adelman
Director, Center for Global Prosperity, Hudson Institute
Ms. Adelman directs Hudson Institute's Center for Global Prosperity,
producing the Index of Global Philanthropy, the sole comprehensive
guide to U.S. and other industrialized countries' private giving -
both philanthropy and remittances - to developing countries. Ms.
Adelman serves as vice chair of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary
Foreign Aid (ACFVA) to the U.S. Agency for International
Development. As assistant administrator of USAID from 1988 to 1993,
she ran aid programs in Asia, the Middle East, and Central and
Eastern Europe. Over the past 30 years, she has served as director,
consultant, and member in numerous non-profit organizations,
including the Atlantic Council, the Council on Foreign Relations,
and the American Red Cross.

"AIDS - Is It a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence?" discussed on April 20 at 12 PM in J1-050

2009-04-07T07:41:00.000-07:00

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MODERATOR
Julie McLaughlin
Sector Manager, Health, Nutrition, and Population, South Asia
Region, World Bank

PRESENTERS
Mariam Claeson,
Program Coordinator, South Asia Regional AIDS Team, World Bank

Mead Over
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

DISCUSSANTS
Robert Clay
Director, The Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID

Debrework Zewdie
Director, Global AIDS Unit, World Bank

Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, and Thomas Friedman discuss "When Nature's Forces Meet Degraded Environments" on Tuesday, April 14th at 2:00 PM in IFC auditorium

2009-03-31T14:10:00.000-07:00

The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Distinguished Seminar Series

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MODERATOR
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery, World Bank
Mr. Sanghi is leading the ongoing World Bank?UN Assessment on the
Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction. This event is part of a
distinguished seminar series designed to contribute ideas by
individuals such as Kenneth Arrow, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Kahneman,
Howard Kunreuther, William Nordhaus, Richard Posner, Thomas
Schelling, Martin Weitzman, and others on selected themes of the
World Bank?UN Assessment. The next speaker is Edward Prescott, the
2004 Economics Nobel Laureate, on April 24. For more information
about the Assessment, please contact Mr. Sanghi at
asanghi@worldbank.org.

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Matthew Bishop of the Economist Magazine discusses "Philanthrocapitalism" on April 8th at 3 PM in JB1-080

2009-03-30T14:22:00.000-07:00

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REMINDER: Environmental Film Festival: Screening in H Auditorium on Thursday, March 19 at 4 PM

2009-03-18T08:36:00.000-07:00

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About the Environmental Film Festival
The 17th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation¹s Capital,
which runs from March 11 through 22, will present 141 documentary,
feature, animated, archival, experimental and children¹s films
selected to provide fresh perspectives on environmental issues
facing our planet. The health and sustainability of earth¹s oceans
and sea life is a major theme of the 2009 Festival, which features
cinematic work from 34 countries.

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REMINDER: Richard Dowden discusses "AFRICA: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles" on March 17, 2009 at 4 PM in J1-050

2009-03-16T14:04:00.000-07:00

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Richard Dowden
Director, Royal African Society
Mr. Dowden is Director of the Royal African Society. He first went
to Africa as a teacher in 1971, and then as a journalist in 1983,
working for The Times. In 1986, he became Africa Editor of The
Independent, and in 1995 took up the post of Africa Editor for The
Economist. He has also made three television documentaries on
Africa, for the BBC, and Channel 4.

CHAIR
Obiageli Ezekwesili
Vice President, Africa Region, World Bank
Ms. Ezekwesili, a Nigerian national, joined the World Bank in 2007
and is leading the institution's Africa operations, which lend about
$4.7 billion a year to the continent. Prior to her current
position, she was Minister of Education within the Government of
Nigeria. Ms. Ezekwesili began her career as an auditor and
management consultant. She was one of the founding members of
Transparency International. Ms. Ezekwesili subsequently served as
Minister of Solid Minerals Development. She has also served as the
Chairperson for the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative since 2004 and pioneered the voluntary sign-on of Nigeria
to the EITI Principles, as well as the first ever audit of the oil
and gas sector.

DISCUSSANT
Bernadette Paolo
President and CEO, The Africa Society of the National Summit on
Africa
Ms. Paolo was named President and CEO of The Africa Society in 2006.
Ms. Paolo has more than 25 years of experience in international
affairs, including an extensive career of 12 years in the U.S.
Congress. Prior to assuming this position, she served as Vice
President of the Africa Society as well as Vice President of the
National Summit on Africa. Ms. Paolo also worked as an international
consultant with a private law practice in Washington, DC. She is a
member of the District of Columbia Bar and the West Virginia Bar.

About The InfoShop
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Richard Dowden discusses "AFRICA: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles" on March 17, 2009 at 4 PM in J1-050

2009-03-13T09:52:00.000-07:00

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Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, U.S. Senator
Chuck Hagel, and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only
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Environmental Film Festival: Screening in H Auditorium on Thursday, March 19 at 4 PM

2009-03-09T12:48:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-06T15:08:00.000-08:00

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

2009-03-04T12:43:00.000-08:00

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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.

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

2009-03-03T14:55:00.000-08:00

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
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serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
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Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, U.S. Senator
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REMINDER: Paul Collier discusses "Wars, Guns, and Votes" on Tuesday, March 3 at IMF, HQ2 at 2 PM

2009-03-02T12:27:00.000-08:00

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
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2009-02-27T15:00:00.000-08:00

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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

2009-02-25T14:45:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-24T17:55:00.000-08:00

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.

IMPORTANT - ACTION REQUIRED: InfoShop Distribution List

2009-02-23T08:46:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-23T07:56:00.000-08:00

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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.

FPD Forum 2009 Feb. 24-26, 2009

2009-02-20T13:38:00.000-08:00

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| 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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| Amar Bhidé, Columbia University |
| Mauricio Cardenas, Brookings Institution |
| Esther Koimett, Secretary of Investment, Kenya |
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| Antoinette Sayeh, IMF and former Minister of Finance, Liberia |
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"Law and Capitalism" discussed on March 5, 2009 at 12 PM in J1-050

2009-02-19T11:39:00.000-08:00

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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

2009-02-18T13:20:00.000-08:00

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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

2009-02-18T12:56:00.000-08:00

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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.

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

2009-02-13T09:35:00.000-08:00

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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.

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

2009-02-11T08:53:00.000-08:00

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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.

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

2009-02-10T14:41:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-09T15:02:00.000-08:00

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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.

REMINDER: "Conditional Cash Transfers" discussed on February 10 at 10:30 AM in H Auditorium

2009-02-09T09:11:00.000-08:00

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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.

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

2009-02-06T14:58:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-04T14:14:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-03T09:29:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-02-02T15:29:00.000-08:00

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For more information about CommGAP and to read the policy reports,
please click here.

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.

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

2009-01-30T12:05:00.000-08:00

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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REMINDER - "The Poverty of Corrupt Nations" discussed by Hon. Roy Cullen on January 29 at 12:00 PM in J1-050

2009-01-28T12:18:00.000-08:00

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AUTHOR
Hon. Roy Cullen
Former Member of Parliament, Canada
Mr. Cullen's career has carried him through a range of significant
roles, where he dealt directly with resource industries, government
administration, finance, and politics. He was an assistant deputy
minister of British Columbia?s Ministry of Forests. He was a Vice
President in the Noranda Forest Group (today?s Norbord). For a dozen
years, he was a member of Canada?s House of Commons, elected from a
Toronto electoral district in 1996 and, through four more successful
elections, serving continuously until retiring from parliament in
2008. It was during his tenure as Parliamentary Secretary to the
Minister of Finance that Mr. Cullen became actively involved in
designing and implementing Canada?s anti-money laundering regime.
Reflecting the same impulse to deal with corruption in a practical
fashion with realistic measures, Mr. Cullen also became highly
active with the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against
Corruption, or GOPAC. This organization knits together elected
representatives from many countries, who provide political
leadership in the international fight against corruption and money
laundering. He has spoken out on these scourges and has played a
leadership role at a number of anti-corruption conferences and
anti-money laundering workshops in various parts of the world.

CHAIR
Samy Watson
Executive Director, Canadian, Irish, and Caribbean Constituency,
World Bank
Mr. Watson was first elected Executive Director for Canada, Ireland
and 11 Caribbean countries in 2006. Prior to his election, he had
served in the Canadian federal government as Deputy Minister of the
Environment (2004-2006) and of Agriculture (2000-2004). His career
in the Canadian federal public service began in 1980. He held
various positions in the Departments of Transportation, National
Revenue, and Finance before becoming Assistant Secretary to the
Cabinet (Priorities and Planning) at the Privy Council Office in
1996. He was promoted to the position of Deputy Secretary to the
Cabinet in 1997.

DISCUSSANT
Richard E. Messick
Senior Public Sector Specialist, Public Sector Governance, World
Bank
Mr. Messick is a Senior Public Sector Specialist in the World Bank's
Public Sector Group. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was a
consultant to Freedom House, a fellow at Hernando de Soto's
Instituto Libertad y Democracia in Lima, Peru, and an advisor to the
Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research. He has
represented firms and individuals in state and federal courts in the
United States and in 1997 was recognized by the United States
District Court for the District of Colombia for his work on behalf
of the indigent.

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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.

"Conditional Cash Transfers" discussed on February 10 at 10:30 AM in H Auditorium

2009-01-27T15:18:00.000-08:00

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REMINDER: "Getting Finance in South Asia 2009" discussed on January 27, 2009 at 12:00 PM

2009-01-26T14:51:00.000-08:00

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CHAIR/OPENING REMARKS
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.

Anoma Kulathunga
Consultant, SASFP, World Bank
Ms. Kulathunga is a consultant at the World Bank. She is an
associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants, U.K. In addition to Getting Finance in South Asia 2009,
she recently co-authored a chapter in Islamic Finance: The
Regulatory Challenge, (John Wiley & Sons). Her research interests
include financial sector development, Islamic banking, worker
remittances, and international banking. She is currently reading for
a PhD in International Finance/Development Economics at The George
Washington University in Washington DC.

DISCUSSANTS
Consolate Rusagara
Director, FPDFS, World Bank
Ms. Rusagara is the Director Financial Systems in the Financial and
Private Sector Development Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group
(FPDFS). Prior to this, she spent six years as a Deputy Governor of
the Central Bank of Rwanda, where she took a lead role in the design
of the financial sector development program. She represented Rwanda
on the Steering Committee of the IMF?s East African Regional
Technical Assistance Centre since his inception in 2002. She
started her twenty four year banking career in commercial banking
and was appointed the Deputy CEO of Bank of Kigali in 1997, where
she managed the post-genocide reconstruction of the bank.

Anjali Kumar
Lead Economist, IEGCG, World Bank
Ms. Kumar is an Adviser in the Financial and Private Sector Vice
Presidency, where she is currently leading a unit engaged in
building world wide indicators on financial access. Her previous
responsibilities included Lead Financial Economist, Latin American
region and Principal Economist, East Asian region. Her prior
country experience span the European region, the Middle East, South
Asia and Africa. She has been a consultant to the Ministry of
Industry Government of India, and held a Fellowship at the Institute
of Economic Growth in Delhi.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.

REMINDER: Time Columnist Michael Kinsley discusses "Creative Capitalism" on Monday, January 26 at 12:00 PM in H Auditorium

2009-01-23T15:46:00.000-08:00

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EDITOR
Michael Kinsley
Columnist, Time Magazine
Mr. Kinsley is a columnist for Time, past editor of the The New
Republic and Harper's, editorial and opinion editor of the Los
Angeles Times, American editor of The Economist, and founding editor
of Slate. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The
Washington Post, and other publications.

CHAIR
Michael Klein
Vice President & Chief Economist, International Finance Corporation

DISCUSSANTS
Djordjija Petkoski
Program Leader, World Bank Institute

Daniel Kaufmann
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

John Williamson
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Book Discussion "The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy" on February 4 at 12:00 PM in J1-050

2009-01-22T14:36:00.000-08:00

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REMINDER: Community Connections Campaign: Exclusive Screening of "War Child" on Friday, January 23 at 12:00 PM in Preston Auditorium

2009-01-22T12:39:00.000-08:00

In the spirit of the World Bank Community Connections Campaign,
Producer and Director C. Karim Chrobog has generously donated his
new award-winning documentary for a private screening at the World
Bank.

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INTRODUCTION
C. Karim Chrobog
Director and Producer
War Child is Director and Producer Mr. Chrobog's first feature film.
He started his career in the media industry at Time Warner's
international public policy office, where he worked closely with the
company's Warner Bros., HBO, Fortune and Turner divisions. In 2005,
Mr. Chrobog launched Tangier Pictures, an independent feature film
company based in Washington, DC. Tangier Pictures is currently
producing a feature film on Ibn Battutah, a colorful, but forgotten
14th century Moroccan adventurer. He is also working on the
documentary Kidnapped, which is based on real-life events and tells
the story of his family's kidnapping during a vacation gone awry in
the South of Yemen three years ago. Mr. Chrobog holds a degree in
International Politics and a Certificate in International Business
Diplomacy from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University. He is fluent in German, Arabic, and English.
He resides in Washington, DC.

WELCOMING REMARKS
Viki Betancourt
Manager, World Bank Community Connections Campaign

REMINDER: "Attacking Inequality in the Health Sector" on January 22 at 3:00 PM in the InfoShop bookstore

2009-01-21T14:18:00.000-08:00

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AUTHOR
Abdo S. Yazbeck
Health Sector Manager, ECA Human Development, World Bank:
Mr. Yazbeck was previously the Program Leader and Lead Health
Economist for WBI's Health and AIDS Team. He joined WBI after
working in the South Asia region on health projects and health
sector policy research in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and the
Maldives. He served as a Coordinator of the Health and Poverty
Thematic Group of the Human Development Network,): which worked on
improving the poverty focus of the World Bank financed projects and
on assisting country clients in the development of Poverty Reduction
Strategy papers and programs. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr.
Yazbeck worked in the private sector and in academia. Among his
co-authored or co-edited books are: Better Health Systems for
India's Poor, Health Policy Research in South Asia, and Reaching the
Poor with HNP Services.

CO-CHAIRS
Ariel Fiszbein
Chief Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Fiszbein was previously the Lead Economist for the Human
Development Department in the Latin America and Caribbean region of
the World Bank. Previously, he was Human Development Leader for
Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay at the World Bank. Before
that, he was a Principal Economist at the World Bank Institute,
where he coordinated the Growth and Poverty Team. He has been at the
World Bank since 1991 where he has held several positions. His
research focuses on poverty and inequality, education, labor
markets, decentralization and institutional development. Some of his
most recent publications include Working together for a Change:
Government, Business and Civic Partnerships for Poverty Reduction in
LAC (co-authored with Pamela Lowden, EDI, 1999), Fiscal
Decentralization in Colombia: The Central Role of the Central
Government(co-authored with Richard Bird, Cambridge University
Press, 1998), and Reforming Institutions in Transition Societies:
Education Decentralization in Central and Eastern Europe (WBI,
2001).

Bruno Laporte
Manager, WBI Knowledge & Human Development Group, World Bank
Mr. Laporte, a French national is currently managing the Human
Development and the Knowledge for Development Group in the World
Bank Institute. In his current responsibility, he oversees a
number of teams focusing on Knowledge for Development, Education,
Health & HIVAIDS, and Social Protection. These programs aim to. d.
evelop the capacity of client countries to access and use knowledge
and to design and develop realistic and achievable strategies to
address challenges in these sectors. Mr. Laporte joined the Bank in
March 1985 as an Education Economist with the Europe, Middle East
and North Africa (EMENA) Projects Department. Since then, he has
worked extensively on education, training, and employment issues in
Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and East Asia. Prior to
joining the Bank, Mr. Laporte worked as an advisor in the Ministry
of Finance and Planning in Cote d'Ivoire, focusing on investment
strategies in education and training. He also worked in the private
sector, as a Loan Officer for Manufacturers Hanover Trust in Paris.

PANELISTS
Maria-Luisa Escobar
Program Leader, WBI Health and AIDS, World Bank
Ms. Escobar is the Health and AIDS Program Leader at the World Bank
Institute. Before her current appointment, Ms. Escobar was a
Global Health Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Previously, she
worked as Lead Health Economist in the World Bank LCR Region, and as
Senior Health Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. She
also served as MOH Director of Planning & Policy and later as
Technical Advisor to the Minister of Social Protection in the
Colombian Government. While on leave from the Bank, she was doing
research on health financing for global health and on health
insurance as a mechanism to address global health needs. Most
recently, she has been working on the impact of health insurance in
developing countries.

Agnès Couffinhal
Senior Economist, South Asia Human Development, World Bank
Ms. Couffinhal is a Senior Economist with a strong interest in
health financing from a research as well as an implementation
perspective. Since she joined the World Bank, she has primarily
worked in Pakistan and Nepal. Prior to this, the focus of her work
was Europe, where she conducted research, systems and policies
analyses for a Paris-based think tank and later for the World Health
Organization.

UPDATED PANEL. Time Columnist Michael Kinsley discusses "Creative Capitalism" on January 26 at 12:00 PM in H Auditorium

2009-01-21T13:30:00.000-08:00

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CHAIR
Michael Klein
Vice President & Chief Economist, International Finance Corporation

DISCUSSANTS
Djordjija Petkoski
Program Leader, World Bank Institute

Daniel Kaufmann
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

John Williamson
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Community Connections Campaign: Exclusive Screening of "War Child" on January 23 at 12:00 PM in Preston Auditorium

2009-01-21T07:53:00.000-08:00

In the spirit of the World Bank Community Connections Campaign,
Producer and Director C. Karim Chrobog has generously donated his new
award-winning documentary for a private screening at the World Bank.

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"War Child"
Friday, January 23, 2009
12:00 PM
World Bank, Preston Auditorium

Please see attached invitation for more information.

(See attached file: WarChildFIN.pdf)

INTRODUCTION
C. Karim Chrobog
Director and Producer
War Child is Director and Producer Mr. Chrobog's first feature film. He started
his career in the media industry at Time Warner's international public policy
office, where he worked closely with the company's Warner Bros., HBO, Fortune
and Turner divisions. In 2005, Mr. Chrobog launched Tangier Pictures, an
independent feature film company based in Washington, DC. Tangier Pictures is
currently producing a feature film on Ibn Battutah, a colorful, but forgotten
14th century Moroccan adventurer. He is also working on the documentary
Kidnapped, which is based on real-life events and tells the story of his
family's kidnapping during a vacation gone awry in the South of Yemen three
years ago. Mr. Chrobog holds a degree in International Politics and a
Certificate in International Business Diplomacy from the Edmund A. Walsh School
of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is fluent in German, Arabic, and
English. He resides in Washington, DC.

"Prosperity Unbound" discussed on December 16 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

2008-12-03T11:37:00.000-08:00

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"Prosperity Unbound" discussed on December 16 at 3:00 PM in J1-050 at the World
Bank.
Please see attached invitation for more information.

(See attached file: 12-16Draft1.pdf)

Elena Panaritis
Director, Panel Group
Ms. Panaritis is a leading expert in property rights, transformation of
illiquid real estate assets, and public sector management. She currently heads
Panel Group, a specialized advisory group that invests in undervalued property
and provides counsel on transforming informal real estate and related public
policy. She lectures on housing finance and public policy reform, with a focus
on property and institutions, at INSEAD, Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International
Studies, and elsewhere. In her eleven years working as an economist at the World
Bank, she spearheaded property rights reform in Peru.

Francis Fukuyama
Professor, International Political Economy, SAIS Johns Hopkins University
Mr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning
political and economic development. His book, The End of History and the Last
Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign
editions. It made the bestseller lists in the United States, France, Japan, and
Chile, and has been awarded the Los Angeles Times' Book Critics Award in the
Current Interest category, as well as the Premio Capri for the Italian edition.
He is also the author of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of
Prosperity (1995), The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of
Social Order (1999), Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology
Revolution (2002), State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st
Century, (2004), and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the
Neoconservative Legacy (2006).

Klaus Deininger
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Deininger is a Lead Economist in the rural development group of the
Development Economics Group. His areas of research focus on income and asset
inequality and its relationship to poverty reduction and growth; access to land,
land markets and land reform and their impact on household welfare and
agricultural productivity; land tenure and its impact on investment, including
environmental sustainability; and capacity building (including the use of
quantitative and qualitative methods) for policy analysis and evaluation, mainly
in the Africa, Central America, and East Asia Regions.

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.

REMINDER. Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

2008-12-02T12:45:00.000-08:00

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Please come to the InfoShop bookstore for the Publication Launch

"European Health Systems and Policies"
on Wednesday, December 3 at noon

Invitation attached.

(See attached file: 12-3Reminder.pdf)

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
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with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
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REMINDER. Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

2008-12-02T12:37:00.000-08:00

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Reminder. SPECIAL EVENT: "Teach Africa" on Tuesday, December 2nd at Preston Auditorium

2008-12-01T11:54:00.000-08:00

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Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

2008-11-25T16:14:00.000-08:00

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Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

2008-11-25T16:12:00.000-08:00

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REMINDER: "Alliance Curse" discussed on Tuesday, November 25 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

2008-11-24T11:44:00.000-08:00

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(See attached file: AllianceCursePoster.pdf)

AUTHOR
Hilton Root
Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Mr. Root, an academic and policy specialist in international
political economy and development, joined George Mason University in
the summer of 2006. He served the current U.S. administration as the
U.S. Executive Director Designate of the Asian Development Bank, and
as senior advisor on development finance to the Department of the
Treasury. Mr. Root was Director and Senior Fellow of Global Studies
at the Milken Institute and was a Senior Research Fellow and
Director of the Initiative on Economic Growth and Democracy at the
Hoover Institution. His areas of expertise are international
economics, economic development and policy reform, and Asian
affairs. As a policy expert, Mr. Root advises the Asian Development
Bank, the IMF, the World Bank, the UNDP, the OECD, the U.S. State
Department, the U.S. Treasury Department, and USAID. He taught at
the University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology, the
University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. Mr. Root has
published six books and more than 100 articles.

MODERATOR
Brian Levy
Advisor, Governance, (PREM) World Bank
Mr. Levy is the author of Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and
Action (World Bank, 2007), which builds on his 2006 work on
governance monitoring featured in the 2006 Global Monitoring Report,
Mutual Accountability: Aid, Trade and Governance. He worked in the
World Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003 on the
challenges of strengthening the institutional underpinnings of
African development. For the last four years, he worked as sector
manager of the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building
Unit. He was a member of the core team which produced the World
Bank?s 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World.
He has published numerous books and articles on the interactions
between public institutions, the private sector and development in
Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere. Prior to joining the World Bank,
he was assistant professor in development economics at Williams
College in Williamstown, MA.

DISCUSSANT
Simeon Djankov
Chief Economist, Financial & Private Sector Development, World Bank
Mr. Djankov is the Chief Economist of the Financial and Private
Sector Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group. He is also the
creator of the Doing Businessseries. In his 13 years at the World
Bank, Mr. Djankov has worked on regional trade agreements in North
Africa, enterprise restructuring and privatization in transition
economies, corporate governance in East Asia, and regulatory reforms
around the world. He was a principal author of the World Development
Report 2002. Mr. Djankov has published over 60 articles in
academic journals, including Quarterly Journal of Economics,
American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial
Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Comparative
Economics.

Infoshop Events

REMINDER: "The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education" discussed on April 29 at 12 PM in J1-050

REMINDER: Nicholas Stern launches "The Global Deal" on Tuesday, April 28 at 4:30 PM in JB1-080

The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities" launched on Wednesday, May 6th from 3-5 PM in J1-050

REMINDER - "Moving Out of Poverty " launched on April 27 at 12 PM in Preston Auditorium

REMINDER - "Moving Out of Poverty " launched on April 27 at 12 PM in Preston Auditorium

REMINDER: Nobel Laureate Edward Prescott discusses "Time Inconsistent Traps: Bailouts for all when credible to none" on Friday, April 24 at 2:00 PM in I2-250

Nicholas Stern launches "The Global Deal" on Tuesday, April 28 at 4:30 PM in JB1-080

"The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education" discussed on April 29 at 12 PM in J1-050

REMINDER: "AIDS - Is It a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence?" discussed on Monday, April 20 at 12 PM in J1-050

"Hardware and Software Industries in China and India" discussed on April 30 at 12 PM in J1-050

"Moving Out of Poverty " launched on April 27 at 12 PM in Preston Auditorium

What's New at the InfoShop, April 2009

REMINDER: Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, and Thomas Friedman discuss "When Nature's Forces Meet Degraded Environments" on Tuesday, April 14th at 2:00 PM in IFC auditorium

REMINDER: Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, and Thomas Friedman discuss "When Nature's Forces Meet Degraded Environments" on Tuesday, April 14th at 2:00 PM in IFC auditorium

"The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education" discussed on April 29 at 12 PM in J1-050

Edward Prescott (Nobel Laureate) discusses "Time Inconsistent Traps: Bailouts for all when credible to none" on Friday, April 24 at 2:00 PM in I2-250

REMINDER: Matthew Bishop of the Economist Magazine discusses "Philanthrocapitalism" on April 8th at 3 PM in JB1-080

"AIDS - Is It a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence?" discussed on April 20 at 12 PM in J1-050

Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, and Thomas Friedman discuss "When Nature's Forces Meet Degraded Environments" on Tuesday, April 14th at 2:00 PM in IFC auditorium

Matthew Bishop of the Economist Magazine discusses "Philanthrocapitalism" on April 8th at 3 PM in JB1-080

REMINDER: Environmental Film Festival: Screening in H Auditorium on Thursday, March 19 at 4 PM

REMINDER: Richard Dowden discusses "AFRICA: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles" on March 17, 2009 at 4 PM in J1-050

Richard Dowden discusses "AFRICA: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles" on March 17, 2009 at 4 PM in J1-050

Environmental Film Festival: Screening in H Auditorium on Thursday, March 19 at 4 PM

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

REMINDER: "Law & Capitalism" discussed on March 5, 2009 at 12 PM in J1-050

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

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

REMINDER - IMPORTANT - ACTION REQUIRED: InfoShop Distribution List

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

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

IMPORTANT - ACTION REQUIRED: InfoShop Distribution List

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

FPD Forum 2009 Feb. 24-26, 2009

"Law and Capitalism" discussed on March 5, 2009 at 12 PM in J1-050

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

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

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

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

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

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

REMINDER: "Conditional Cash Transfers" discussed on February 10 at 10:30 AM in H Auditorium

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

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

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

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

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

REMINDER - "The Poverty of Corrupt Nations" discussed by Hon. Roy Cullen on January 29 at 12:00 PM in J1-050

"Conditional Cash Transfers" discussed on February 10 at 10:30 AM in H Auditorium

REMINDER: "Getting Finance in South Asia 2009" discussed on January 27, 2009 at 12:00 PM

REMINDER: Time Columnist Michael Kinsley discusses "Creative Capitalism" on Monday, January 26 at 12:00 PM in H Auditorium

Book Discussion "The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy" on February 4 at 12:00 PM in J1-050

REMINDER: Community Connections Campaign: Exclusive Screening of "War Child" on Friday, January 23 at 12:00 PM in Preston Auditorium

REMINDER: "Attacking Inequality in the Health Sector" on January 22 at 3:00 PM in the InfoShop bookstore

UPDATED PANEL. Time Columnist Michael Kinsley discusses "Creative Capitalism" on January 26 at 12:00 PM in H Auditorium

Community Connections Campaign: Exclusive Screening of "War Child" on January 23 at 12:00 PM in Preston Auditorium

"Prosperity Unbound" discussed on December 16 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

REMINDER. Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

REMINDER. Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

Reminder. SPECIAL EVENT: "Teach Africa" on Tuesday, December 2nd at Preston Auditorium

Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

Publication Launch "European Health Systems and Policies" on December 3 at noon in the InfoShop Bookstore

REMINDER: "Alliance Curse" discussed on Tuesday, November 25 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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