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PersonGreaney, Vincent
Vincent Greaney was lead education specialist at the World Bank. A former teacher, research fellow at the Educational Research Centre at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, and visiting Fulbright Professor at Western Michigan University, he is a member of the International Reading Association’s Reading Hall of Fame. Areas of interest include national assessment, public examinations, teacher education, reading, and promotion of social cohesion through textbook reform. He has worked on educational projects mainly in Africa, South and East Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. -
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Shmis, Tigran
Global Practice on Education, The World BankTigran Shmis holds a specialist degree (2001) as a school teacher of computer sciences and economics, after graduating the University he completed the postgraduate study in educational ICTs and holds a PhD (candidate of sciences) degree (2004) from the Russian Academy of Education. Later he completed a MEd (2007) program of the Moscow branch of the University of Manchester on Management in Education and Educational Policy. Tigran worked under educational projects in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Romania, Serbia and Peru. Among those projects are: the Yakutia Early Childhood Development (ECD) project, Russian Education Aid for Development (READ), Khanty-Mansyisk ECD infrastructure development technical assistance, Kyrgyz ECD project, Belarus Education Modernization Project and Serbia ECD project, technical Assistance on Safer Schools development project in Peru. He delivered several cooperation programs with the OECD Center for Effective Learning Environments (CELE) and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) networks and UNESCO. Areas of research and professional interests are ECD, innovative learning environments, and international assessment work. Tigran leads a work on innovative learning environments, ECD quality initiatives, and capacity building of Russia in international development aid in education. -
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Pisaniello, John
Dr John Pisaniello is an Associate Research Professor and Leader of the Sustainable Engineering, Accounting and Law Group in the Business and Law Department at the University of South Australia. John is also a qualified civil engineer and lawyer with over 25 years water and dams management experience developed from a transdisciplinary PhD, three prestigious Australian Research Council Discovery Projects and Fellowship and numerous assignments from local, national and international agencies. Interweaving both the legal and policy understanding of a lawyer and the technical and inventive skills of an engineer, John has applied comparative methods and developed innovative cost-effective tools to help both dam owners/managers and policy/law makers better review and understand inter-related water storage, dam safety, flood and drought issues at the individual, catchment and regional levels. This has enabled the design of both policy and practice solutions to improve productivity, equity and safety internationally, including developing country contexts. John has authored over 150 publications, many in leading international refereed journals. -
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Irwin, Alexander
Alexander Irwin, MD, PhD, is an independent global health writer and researcher living in Hong Kong SAR, China, and New York. He has held staff and faculty appointments at the World Health Organization, the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the World Bank. As a writer and editor, he has contributed to recent global reports on tobacco control policy, antimicrobial resistance, and health financing in low- and middle-income countries. -
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Atwood, Stephen J.
Stephen J. Atwood, M.D., F.A.A.P., Associate Professor of Public Health, Faculty of Public Health at Thammasat University in Thailand where he teaches courses in the Masters in Public Health (Global Health) Program, Conference Chairperson for the annual international conference, New Voices in Global Health, Director, Public Health Solutions, Ltd., an international consultancy firm based in Hong Kong. He is a former Director of Pediatric Emergency Services at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center in New York City, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Columbia University (USA) and Director, Division of Education, at Babies Hospital of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He was subsequently Head of CARE International’s and UNICEF’s health programs in India, and UNICEF’s Regional Advisor for Health and Nutrition in the East Asia and Pacific Region, based in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Atwood has more than 30 years of public health and nutrition experience in South, Southeastern, Central and Northern Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. He received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alumni Association of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2003, and the Lifetime Achievement Award and Martin Luther King Social Justice Award from Dartmouth College in 2007. He presently resides in Vermont. -
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Larson, Donald F.
Development Research Group, World BankDonald F. Larson is a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Development Research Group. He holds a B.A in economics from the College of William and Mary, an M.A. in economics from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland. With colleagues, he has authored or edited five books, including An African Green Revolution: Finding Ways to Boost Productivity on Small Farms, a forthcoming volume from Springer, and The Clean Development Mechanism: An Early History of Unanticipated Outcomes, a forthcoming volume from World Scientific. He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles, with an emphasis on agricultural productivity and growth; food and rural development policies; natural resource policies; the institutions and markets related to climate change; and the performance of commodity futures and risk markets. During his time with the World Bank, Don has participated in policy discussion in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, East Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He was a member of the team that launched the World Bank’s Prototype Carbon Fund. -
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Yikona, Stuart
Financial Market Integrity, World BankStuart Yikona, is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist with the World Bank in the Financial Market Integrity Service Line. Prior to joining the World Bank in June 2005 as a Financial Sector Specialist, he worked as a Consulting Counsel with the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund from 2001-2005. He completed his Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) at the University of Virginia Law School in banking law on "Insiders and Insider Abuse in Banking Institutions in the United States and Zambia". He co-authored the report on “Ill-gotten Money and the Economy, Experiences from Malawi and Namibia” (2011). In his current position, he advises client countries on issues related to combating financial crimes such as corruption, the laundering of proceeds of crimes; delivering capacity building programs to strengthen client countries capacity to combat financial crimes; and most recently pursuing research on impact of ill-gotten money on the economy. In addition to this portfolio, both at the IMF and now at the Bank, Stuart has participated in Financial Sector Assessment Programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. He led a project on developing training modules and a simulation exercise to assist anti-corruption agencies in client countries to use anti-money laundering tools in combating corruption, which now being rolled out in client countries in Africa and Asia. -
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Uprety, Kishor
Legal Department, World BankA lawyer with more than 26 years in the profession, Kishor Uprety, has been, for the last two decades, associated with the World Bank’s Legal Department, where he currently is a Senior Counsel. Through the Bank, he has worked on a number of issues of development pertaining to more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. He holds a Doctorate degree in international law, and has been a Guest Speaker at many professional and academic institutions, on a number of international law and development-related topics, including, among other, The Role of Third Party in International Water Treaty Making, Legal Reform, Transbounday Waters, and Legal Aspects of Operations of International Financial Organizations. Kishor Uprety has also designed and implemented some training programs on Legal Aspects of Operations for the benefit of World Bank’s Project managers, and has further served on the Editorial Board of the World Bank’ Series on Law, Justice and Development. Kishor Uprety has authored 11 books and more than two dozen articles on various issues of development law, international and water law. His books have focused, among other, on: (i) Development and Peace; (ii) Institutions for Legal and Judicial Training; (iii) Transit Regime of Landlocked States; (iv) Conflict and Cooperation on International Rivers; (v) Hydropolitics; (vi) Combating Corruption; (vii) Globalization of Justice; and (viii) Contracts -
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Sano, Hans-Otto
Nordic Trust Fund, Knowledge and Learning Dept., World BankHas worked in the World Bank since 2010, short term consultant 2006-09. Worked in the Danish Institute for Human Rights between 1997 and 2010, first as senior researcher and analyst, later as research director, and as acting director. Between 1994 and 1997 associate professor at University of Roskilde, Institute of Development Studies. Experience from field work in African and Asian countries, especially in rural areas. Published works have included work on livelihood strategies, food and agricultural policies, and human rights. Expertise on human rights indicators. -
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Clavijo, Mateo
Mateo Clavijo is a former researcher at the World Bank’s Macroeconomic and Fiscal Management Department for Latin America and the Caribbean. He holds an MSc in Economics and Finance from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona-Spain. His research interests include monetary economics and development and he has focused on studying the effects of financial system imbalances on economic cycles as well as income differences in Latin American. Prior to his position at the World Bank he worked in the banking sector in his hometown of Bogotá-Colombia, where he also obtained an MA and BA degree in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes.