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.
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.
