FPD Forum 2009 Feb. 24-26, 2009

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| Markets and Crises: What Next and How? |
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| Date: February 24-26, 2009 |
| Venue: Preston Auditorium, World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C. |
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| The forum will assess the current financial and economic crises and |
| their implications for policymakers, emerging markets, and World Bank |
| Group strategy. Robert B. Zoellick, President, World Bank, will open |
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| Guest speakers include: |
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| Award-winning author of The Black Swan |
| "The hottest thinker in the world.? ? London Times |
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| Tim Harford |
| Financial Times columnist & author of The Undercover Economist |
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| ?Much wit and wisdom.? ? The Houston Chronicle |
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| Other speakers include representatives from the Federal Reserve, |
| Moody?s, Oppenheimer Funds, the IMF, Banco Santander, Citigroup, Wells |
| Fargo, Ashmore Investment, Darby Overseas Investments and more... |
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| Other confirmed speakers: |
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| Private sector |
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| Vikram Akula, SKS Microfinance |
| Bob Annibale, Citi Microfinance |
| 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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| Public sector, think tanks, and academia |
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| Daron Acemoglu, MIT |
| Amar Bhidé, Columbia University |
| Mauricio Cardenas, Brookings Institution |
| Esther Koimett, Secretary of Investment, Kenya |
| Alex Pollock, American Enterprise Institute |
| Antoinette Sayeh, IMF and former Minister of Finance, Liberia |
| Janine Thorne, Development Bank of South Africa |
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| Meet more than 50 reformers, regulators, bankers, fund managers, and|
| academics to discuss questions such as: |
| - What lessons do the current crises offer for emerging markets? |
| - Is there a tradeoff between financial access and stability? |
| - What?s next for bank ownership, regulation, and governance? |
| - Are insolvency regimes recession-ready? |
| - What?s next for housing finance? |
| - What's the outlook for China and India? |
| - Does reform of business regulation still matter? |
| - Can local bond markets cushion the fall? |
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| Catch up on innovative FPD projects spanning all regions and |
| business groups during our speed dating plenary |
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| And much more. See the draft agenda. |
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| Please register through LMS or FPDforum.worldbank.org |
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| External participation is by invitation only. Contact Ann-Marie Nguyen,|
| +1 202-458-1786(anguyen2@worldbank.org) for details or more |
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"Law and 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 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
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serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
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events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
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Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, U.S. Senator
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Paul Collier discusses "Wars, Guns, and Votes" on March 3 at IMF, HQ2 at 2 PM

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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
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Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues.
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REMINDER - "South Asian Bond Markets" Discussed on February 19, 2009 at 12:00 PM in J1-050

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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.

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.
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For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

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

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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 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.

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

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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.

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.

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

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PANELISTS
Nick Hughes
Head of Global Payments, Vodafone
Mr. Hughes heads up the international mobile payments business unit
at Vodafone Group, a team created to build on the success of M-PESA
? Kenya?s first mobile payment system, which has seen significant
customer uptake over its first two years in operation (+5m
subscribers). Mr. Hughes started the M-PESA concept in 2004 through
some venture funding made available by the UK Government. The
system is now deployed in multiple markets and with a range of
partners. Additionally, the functionality is now extended beyond
simple person-to-person money transfer services, moving towards
broader m-commerce opportunities. This includes micro-credit,
salary and bill payment as well as cross border remittances. Mr.
Hughes joined Vodafone in 2001 from the large energy company BP,
where he worked on international projects, including a prototype
emissions trading system.

Katrin Verclas
Founder, MobileActive.org
Ms. Verclas is a recognized expert in mobile communications for
social impact. She is the co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org,
a global network of practitioners using mobile phones for social
impact. She is also a principal at Calder Strategies, focusing on
mobile strategy, impact evaluation, effectiveness and ROI
assessment, and interactive capacity building. Ms. Verclas is a
co-author of Wireless Technology for Social Change, a report on
trends in mobile use by NGOs with the UN Foundation and Vodafone
Group Foundation, and author of A Mobile Voice: The Use of Mobile
Phones in Citizen Media. Her background is in IT management, IT in
social change organizations, and in philanthropy. She has led
several nonprofit organizations, including a position as the
Executive Director of NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network, the
national association of IT professionals working in the more than
one million nonprofit organizations in the United States. Previously
, she served as a program officer at the Proteus Fund, which focused
on the use of technology in civic and democratic participation and
in government transparency. Ms. Verclas serves on the boards of
Mobile Voter and Ushahidi.

Holly Ladd
Vice President, AED Satellife
Ms. Ladd has 25 years of experience in developing, managing, and
implementing projects and overseeing diverse staff and consultants.
As Director of AED-Satellife, Ms. Ladd has pioneered the use of
mobile technologies in remote health settings. She has worked with
a wide spectrum of organizations that include USAID, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, EngenderHealth, WHO, World Bank, and
the Red Cross. In these various organizations, she developed
low-cost, state-of-the art technology solutions that address health
information needs in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa,
Nepal, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Bolivia, and Mozambique. Her technical
areas of expertise include health information management systems
planning and integration; service provision protocol development;
curriculum and training materials development and implementation;
development of systems for management of training along with
monitoring and evaluation.

DISCUSSANT
Jesse Moore
Director, Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA) Development
Mr. Moore is the Director of the GSMA Development Fund, with
specific focus on mServices. Previously, he worked with Vodafone on
M-PESA, a mobile payment service targeting Kenya?s un-banked
population. From 2002-2006, he founded and directed CARE Enterprise
Partners, the division of the large NGO that provides venture
capital to businesses in the developing world. During this period,
Mr. Moore helped start base of the pyramid businesses in Bangladesh,
Peru and Kenya, and spoke about social investment at dozens of
international conferences and business schools. He has also worked
as a management consultant at Monitor Company.

CHAIR
Gautam Ivatury
Strategic Advisor, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
Mr. Ivatury is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for
International Development (Washington), and a Strategic Advisor to
CGAP, the global microfinance resource center housed at the World
Bank. From 2003 through 2008, he led CGAP's work in microfinance and
technology, including setting up and managing a program co-funded by
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to demonstrate the potential
of mobile phones and branchless banking for the poor. Before joining
CGAP in 2003, Mr. Ivatury helped manage SKS Microfinance, India's
largest microfinance institution (now serving 5m households), and
founded a company to connect U.S. universities and foreign students
through the Internet. He has worked in investment and commercial
banking in the electric power industry at Donaldson Lufkin &
Jenrette and the International Finance Corporation. Mr. Ivatury
writes on microfinance and technology at http://technology.cgap.org.

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