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Wodon, Quentin
Education Global PraciceQuentin Wodon is a Lead Economist at the World Bank. Previous roles include managing the unit on values and development, serving as Lead Poverty Specialist for Africa, and working as Economist/Senior Economist for Latin America. Before joining the World Bank, he taught with tenure at the University of Namur. He has also taught at American University and Georgetown University. Quentin has more than 500 publications and his research has been covered by major news outlets. He has served as Associate Editor for journals and as President of two economics associations (the Society of Government Economists and the Association for Social Economics). A lifelong learner, he holds four PhDs in economics, environmental science, health sciences, and theology. Upon completing business engineering studies, Quentin conducted market research as Laureate of the Prize of Belgium’s Secretary for Foreign Trade. He worked next as Assistant Brand Manager for Procter & Gamble. Almost 30 years ago, he shifted career and joined ATD Fourth World, a non-profit working with the extreme poor. He has tried to remain faithful to the cause of ending extreme poverty ever since. In his free time, he volunteers with nonprofits and through Rotary, where he has served in leadership positions with his club, his district, and globally. He also tries to remain (barely) fit with occasional marathons and triathlons, finishing at the end of the pack. -
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Seiter, Andreas
Health, Nutrition, and Population Global PracticeAndreas Seiter is the Global Lead for Private Sector in the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice. His role is to work with World Bank teams and clients to strengthen private sector participation in the pursuit of Universal Health Coverage. He joined the Bank in 2004 and has been working on projects in more than 30 countries in all regions. Before joining the World Bank, he was with Novartis, a leading pharmaceutical company, where he spent 18 years in various positions in medical affairs, marketing, global policy and communications. Andreas is a German national and was trained as a physician. -
PersonMearns, Robin
Social Development Department, World BankRobin Mearns is currently Lead Specialist and Cluster Leader for Social Resilience at the World Bank. He has over 25 years of experience in research, strategy, policy, operations and community-level engagement in rural development, natural resource management and climate resilience in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A geographer by training (MA, PhD Cambridge), with additional training in environmental and development economics (MPhil Sussex), he has also published widely on a range of topics in sustainable development. Prior to joining the Bank in 1997 he was a Fellow of IDS Sussex and a Research Associate at IIED, London. -
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Guasch, Jose Luis
Mr. Guasch holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, California, USA and Industrial Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, Spain. He is the Former Senior Regional Advisor in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region in The World Bank in Washington, DC, responsible for regulation, competitiveness, infrastructure/PPP , innovation and technology issues and investment climate for the LAC Region and was the Head of the World Bank Global Expert Team on PPP. He is also a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, since 1980. Over 30 years of experience advising Governments on multiple aspects i) on improving Competitiveness, and Innovation and Mainstreaming SMEs into the value chain; and ii) on Infrastructure and PPPs and Regulation (legal, institutional, processes, contract design, contract oversight, instruments and capacity building, financial issues, pricing etc). He has assisted and adviced Governments in more than 50 countries on a variety of isssues among them on competitiveness, and infrastructure and PPPs. He has written extensively in leading economic and finance journals, and has written several books. His most recent books are: (i) Managing the Regulatory Process: Design, Concepts, Issues and the Latin America and Caribbean Story; (ii) The Challenge of Designing and Implementing Effective Regulation: A Normative Approach and an Empirical Evaluation; (iii) Labor Markets: The Unfinished Reform in Latin America and Caribbean; (iv) Closing the Gap in Education and Technology in Latin America ; (v) Granting and Renegotiating Concessions: Doing it Right; vi) The Impact of Private Participation in Infrastructure; and vii) Does the Investment Climate Matter? -
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Beck, Thorsten
Thorsten Beck is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the European Banking Center. Before joining Tilburg University and the Center, he worked at the Development Research Group of the World Bank. His research and policy work has focused on two main questions: What is the effect of financial sector development on economic growth and poverty alleviation? What are the determinants of a sound and effective financial sector? Recently, his research has focused on access to financial services by small and medium-sized enterprises and households, as well as bank resolution, especially for cross-border banks. He is co-author of several policy reports, including "Making Finance Work for Africa" and "Finance for All? Policies and Pitfalls in Expanding Access." His country experience in both research and policy work includes Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Russia and several sub-Saharan African countries. -
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Goyal, Aparajita
Poverty and Equity Global PracticeAparajita Goyal is a Senior Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. Her work focuses on microeconomic issues of development, with a particular emphasis on technological innovation in agriculture, access to markets, and intellectual property rights. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Development Economics, and has also been featured in popular press such as Frontline, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, amongst others. She has previously worked in the Development Economics Research Group, Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America region and recently in the Agriculture Global Practice, since joining the World Bank through the Young Professionals Program. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India. -
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Goldstein, Markus
Africa Gender Practice and Development Research Group, World BankMarkus Goldstein is a development economist with experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. He is currently the Gender Practice Leader in the Africa Region and a Lead Economist in the Research Group of the World Bank. His current research centers on issues of gender and economic activity, focusing on agriculture and small scale enterprises. He is currently involved in a number of impact evaluations on these topics across Africa. Markus has taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Ghana, Legon, and Georgetown University. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. -
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Patrinos, Harry Anthony
Education Global PracticeHarry Anthony Patrinos is the Practice Manager for the Europe and Central Asia region of the World Bank's education global practice. 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 (St. Martin’s, 1999), Decentralization of Education: Demand-Side Financing (World Bank, 1997), and Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin America: An Empirical Analysis with George Psacharopoulos (World Bank/Ashgate, 1994). He has also worked in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. He previously worked as an economist at the Economic Council of Canada. Mr. Patrinos received a doctorate from the University of Sussex. -
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Maimbo, Samuel Munzele
Europe and Central Asia, World BankSamuel is a Lead Financial Sector Specialist in the Europe and Central Asia Finance and Private Sector Department of the World Bank. In his most recent position in the Africa Department, Samuel has guided the World Bank’s finance and private sector development activities in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and played a key role in shaping the Africa regions financial sector development strategy. His research interests include expanding access to finance, long term finance and financial sector stability, and the development impact of remittances and migration. He is a co-author of the Africa regional flagship publication, Financing Africa: Through the Crisis and Beyond and co-editor of the World Bank seminal work on remittances: Remittances: Development Impact and Prospects. His work has been published in edited volumes, peer-reviewed journals and as working papers. In his current position, Samuel is working on the financial sector crisis in Europe, and its long term financial development implications. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was a Senior Bank Inspector at the Bank of Zambia; an auditor at Price Waterhouse; and Managing Partner of Josadan Enterprises, a start-up agribusiness in Lusaka, Zambia. A Rhodes Scholar, Samuel obtained a PhD in Public Administration with a thesis on the design, development and implementation of banking regulation and supervision practices from the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, England in 2001; a MBA (Finance) Degree from the University of Nottingham, England in 1998; a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree (with Distinction) from the Copperbelt University, Zambia in 1994. He is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), United Kingdom and a Fellow of the Zambia Institute of Certified Accountants (ZICA). -
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Nenova, Tatiana
South AsiaTatiana Nenova is a Program Leader for Sri Lanka and Maldives at the World Bank, responsible for Financial Markets, Trade and Competitiveness, Macro and Fiscal, Governance, and Poverty.Her operational work has focused on several financial sector areas of work (capital markets, access to finance for the poor, housing finance, and infrastructure finance and PPPs) as well as Investment climate and institutions, Trade policy and facilitation, and public sector institutions strengthening, and macro / fiscal policy. Before Sri Lanka, she has worked as Program Leader in Indonesia, with the World Bank CFO, as operational staff in South Asia, in the International Finance Corporation and in academia. Dr. Nenova has also published in leading US and international journals and co-created several innovative World Bank publications such as the Doing Business Report. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.