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Yu, Winston
Sustainable Development, South Asia Region, World BankWinston Yu is a Senior Water Resources Specialist in the South Asia Region. He has extensive experience working on technical and institutional problems in the water sector and has carried out a number of investment projects and research in a variety of developing countries (e.g. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and China). His special interests include river basin management, hydrologic modeling, flood forecasting and management, groundwater hydrogeology, international rivers, and adaptation to climate change. Before joining the Bank he was a researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) examining policy strategies for managing water resources under climate change conditions. He also served as a Science and Technology Officer at the US Department of State working on water issues in the Middle East. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches a course on international water issues in development. He received a Ph.D. and M.S. from Harvard University. -
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Jha, Abhas K.
Urban and Disaster Risk Management, East Asia and the Pacific, World BankAbhas Jha is Practice Manager, Urban Development and Disaster Risk Management (East Asia and the Pacific) within the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice for the World Bank. He leads operations and strategy, technical quality control and risk management of one of the largest portfolios of infrastructure lending, technical assistance, and advisory services within the World Bank. Abhas works on cities, infrastructure finance and economics, risk and resilience, and public policy. He has been with the World Bank since 2001, working on policy reform and development finance in a variety of countries including China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Jamaica, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and Peru. Abhas earlier served as Adviser to the World Bank Executive Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Sri Lanka. He was for 12 years a member of the Indian Administrative Service (the national senior civil service of India) in the Government of India (in the Federal Ministry of Finance and earlier in the state of Bihar). Abhas is the lead author of "Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Disasters" (2010) and "Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management" (2012) and has edited/co-edited or contributed chapters to several other publications. -
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Ravallion, Martin
Development Research Group, World BankMartin Ravallion is Acting Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, a position he has held since June 2012. Prior to that he was Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank—the Bank’s research department. He has held various positions in the Bank since he joined as an Economist in 1988 and he has worked across multiple sectors and in all Bank regions. Prior to joining the Bank, Martin was on the faculty of the Australian National University (ANU). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), and has taught economics at LSE, Oxford University, the Australian National University, Princeton University and the Paris School of Economics. Martin’s main research interests over the last 25 years have concerned poverty and policies for fighting it. He is well-known for his work on measuring global poverty and for his work linking economic policies to the welfare of poor people, including the evaluation of anti-poverty programs. He has advised numerous governments and international agencies on these topics, and he has written extensively on them, including four books and over 200 papers in scholarly journals and edited volumes. Martin currently serves on the Editorial Boards of ten economics journals, is a Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development and a Founding Council Member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. In 2011 he received the John Kenneth Galbraith Award of America’s Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. -
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Lopez, J. Humberto
Latin America and the CaribbeanHumberto Lopez is the World Bank Director of Strategy and Operations for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region. In this position, he oversees the day-to-day operations of the institution in the region and contributes to the definition and successful implementation of the strategic vision for Latin America. Previously, he was the World Bank Country Director for Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama). In that position, he managed the support and technical cooperation programs, financing operations and the studies of these six nations. Before that, he was Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank. In addition, Lopez has an extensive publication record in areas such as fiscal policy, exchange rates, armed conflict and growth. He has also been editor of three books on FTAs, remittances and development, and investment climate in Latin America, and was the principal author of the flagship report of the World Bank's Latin America 2006 on growth and poverty reduction. Before joining the World Bank, Lopez was professor of economics at the University of Salamanca (Spain) and visiting professor at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (USA). Lopez received a BA from the University of the Basque Country, where he studied economics. He then studied at the University of Warwick (UK), where he earned his master's (1991) before attending the University Institute. -
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de Walque, Damien
Development Research GroupDamien de Walque received his Ph.D.in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2003. His research interests include health and education and the interactions between them. His current work is focused on evaluating the impact of financial incentives on health and education outcomes. He is currently evaluating the education and health outcomes of conditional cash transfers linked to school attendance and health center visits in Burkina Faso. He is also working on evaluating the impact of HIV/AIDS interventions and policies in several African countries. He is leading two evaluations of the impact of short-term financial incentives on the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs): individuals who test negatively for a set of STIs receive regular cash payment in Tanzania, while in Lesotho they receive lottery tickets. On the supply side of health services, he is managing a large portfolio of impact evaluations of results-based financing in the health sector. He has also edited a book on risky behaviors for health (smoking, drugs, alcohol, obesity, risky sex) in the developing world. -
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Narayan, Ambar
Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World BankAmbar Narayan, a Lead Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank, leads and advises teams conducting policy analysis and research in development from a microeconomic perspective. Topics that he works on include inequality of opportunity, economic mobility, policy evaluation, economic transformation, country diagnostics, and impacts of economic shocks on households. Currently, he provides leadership to teams engaged in analyzing the distributional impacts of markets, institutions and private sector participation, and the inequality implications of COVID-19 for developing countries. Ambar has been a lead author for several large World Bank studies, including a recent global report on intergenerational mobility titled “Fair Progress?” as well as reports on inequality of opportunity, poverty, and the impacts of financial crisis in developing countries. In the past, he has worked in the South Asia region of the World Bank on knowledge and lending programs. He has authored a number of scholarly publications and working papers, which reflect the eclectic mix of topics he has worked on over the years. He holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University in the United States. -
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Canuto, Otaviano
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World BankOtaviano Canuto is Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, a division of more than 700 economists and public sector specialists working on economic policy advice, technical assistance, and lending for reducing poverty in the World Bank’s client countries. He took up his position in May 2009, after serving as the Vice President for Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank since June 2007. Dr. Canuto provides strategic leadership and direction on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and governance. He is involved in managing the Bank’s overall interactions with key partner institutions including the IMF and others. He has lectured and written widely on economic growth, financial crisis management, and regional development, with recent work on financial crisis and economic growth in Latin America. He speaks Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. -
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Suzuki, Hiroaki
Urban Development and Resilience Unit, Sustainable Development NetworkHiroaki Suzuki is the former lead urban specialist of the World Bank. He has more than 40 years of operational, research and academic experiences in infrastructure, urban and public sectors at the World Bank, the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, Japan (OEF/current Japan International Cooperation Agency/ JICA) and several universities in Tokyo. He specializes in sustainable urban development, transport and land use integration, land value captures, municipal finance, infrastructure finance and public enterprise restructuring and privatization. During his 27-year tenure at the World Bank, he led many innovative lending operations including,” India Coal Sector Rehabilitation”, “Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund” and “Shino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City”. His major publications from the World Bank include: Eco2 Cities: Ecological Cities as Economic Cities (2010); Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development (2013); and Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values: Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries, (2015). He lives with his family in Virginia, USA. -
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Hentschel, Jesko
Latin America & CaribbeanJesko Hentschel is the World Bank Director for Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, based in Buenos Aires. Hentschel is works for the World Bank since 1992. Throughout his 20 year career, Hentschel has specialized in poverty reduction and human development issues as well as public finance and has experience in several regions including Africa, Europe and Central Asia, South Asia and Latin America. In 2013, Hentschel was one of the principal authors of the World Development Report 2013 that focused on jobs. Before joining the Southern Cone, he served as Sector Director for Human Development in South Asia. Hentschel is an economist and a PhD in International Trade, Development and Econometrics from the University of Konstanz (Germany). He also has a Master in Science Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics (UK) and a Masters in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Hentschel is a German national, has lived in Argentina, Turkey and Madagascar, and speaks English, Spanish, French and German. -
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Robalino, Robalino, David A.
Labor and Youth, Human Development Network, World Bank, Employment and Development Program, German Institute of Labor (IZA)David Robalino is the Lead Economist and Leader of the Labor and Youth Team in the Human Development Anchor of the World Bank. He also serves as Co-Director of the Employment and Development program at IZA – the Institute for the Study of the Labor. Since joining the Bank David has been working on issues related to social security, labor markets and fiscal policy. He has worked in several countries in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. David has published on issues related to macroeconomics and labor markets, social insurance and pensions, health financing, the economics of HIV/AIDS, and the economics of climate change. More recently David has been working on issues related to the design of unemployment benefits systems in middle income countries, the extension of social insurance programs to the informal sector, and the integration of social protection and education/training policies to improve labor market outcomes and productivity growth. Prior to joining the Bank David was a researcher at the RAND Corporation where he was involved in research on health, population and labor, climate change, and the development of quantitative methods for policy analysis under conditions of uncertainty. David also served in the Presidential Committee for Social Security Reform in Ecuador. David did his graduate studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris and the RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica – California.