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

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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
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
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For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
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Richard Dowden discusses "AFRICA: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles" on March 17, 2009 at 4 PM in J1-050

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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
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.

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

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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.

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.

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

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

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

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

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

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

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, U.S. Senator
Chuck Hagel, and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only
publicly accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and
external audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World
Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

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

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

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

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

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

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, U.S. Senator
Chuck Hagel, and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only
publicly accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and
external audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World
Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

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

Directions to IMF Headquarters

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

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

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

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

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, U.S. Senator
Chuck Hagel, and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only
publicly accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and
external audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World
Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.