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Fiszbein, Ariel
Human Development Network, World BankAriel Fiszbein is Chief Economist for the Human Development Network at the World Bank. Mr. Fiszbein holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the World Bank in 1991 and has held several positions including that of coordinator of the poverty reduction team at the World Bank Institute, coordinator of the Bank’s program in human development for the southern cone countries in Latin America, Lead Economist in the Human Development Department for Latin America and the Caribbean and Adviser to the Bank’s Chief Economist and senior vice-President for Development Economics. In the latter position, he coordinated the Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation initiative. He has published extensively on issues of social policy. He has taught at the Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires and was the secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) between 1998 and 2005. -
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Filmer, Deon
Development Research GroupDeon Filmer is a Lead Economist in the Research Group at the World Bank and Co-Director of the World Development Report 2018 Learning to Realize Education’s Promise. He has also previously served as Lead Economist in the Human Development department of the Africa Region of the World Bank. He works on issues of human capital and skills, service delivery, and the impact of policies and programs to improve human development outcomes—with research spanning the areas of education, health, social protection, and poverty and inequality. He has published widely in refereed journals, including studies of the impact of demand-side programs on schooling and learning; the roles of poverty, gender, orphanhood, and disability in explaining education inequalities; and the determinants of effective service delivery. He has recently co-authored the following books: Making Schools Work: New Evidence from Accountability Reforms, Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, and From Mines and Wells to Well-Built Minds: Turning Sub-Saharan Africa's Natural Resource Wealth into Human Capital. He was a core team member of the World Bank's World Development Reports in 1995 Workers in an Integrating World and 2004 Making Services Work for Poor People, and a contributor to 2007’s report Development and the Next Generation. He holds a PhD and MA from Brown University and a BA from Tufts University. -
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Tandon, Prateek
Global Practice for Education, The World BankPrateek Tandon is a Senior Economist with the World Bank Group. He has authored, alone or with others, four books on the labor markets, innovation, and the economics of higher education, including the World Bank’s Flagship publication for 2011 on the economics of higher education and growth. He manages Bank investment lending to client governments across East Asia and the Pacific. He was educated at Yale and Oxford and was a Rhodes Scholar. -
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De la Torre, Augusto
Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean Region, The World BankAugusto de la Torre, a national of Ecuador, is the Chief Economist for Latin American and the Caribbean. Since joining the World Bank in 1997, he has held the positions of Senior Advisor in the Financial Systems Department and Senior Financial Sector Advisor, both in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. de la Torre was the head of the Central Bank of Ecuador, and in November 1996 was chosen by Euromoney Magazine as the year’s "Best Latin Central Banker." From 1986 to 1992 he worked at the International Monetary Fund, where, among other positions, he was the IMF’s Resident Representative in Venezuela (1991-1992). Mr. de la Torre has published extensively on a broad range of macroeconomic and financial development topics. He is a member of the Carnegie Network of Economic Reformers. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics at the University of Notre Dame and holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Ecuador. -
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Ort, Rachel
Governance & Public Sector Management, Social DevelopmentRachel Ort is a consultant with the Governance & Public Sector Management and the Social Development units at the World Bank. Her research interests include the political economy of decentralization and of collective action in fragile states. Before joining the World Bank, she spent a year in Botswana on a U.S. Fulbright grant researching the relationship between civil society and democratization. She has worked with the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center in Johannesburg, South Africa; managed workforce training and grant development for a nonprofit in northern Nevada; and worked as a community organizer on U.S. political campaigns, where she coordinated voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. She holds a master’s degree in international development and international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. -
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Winkler, Hernán
Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World BankHernan Winkler is a Senior Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice. He specializes in labor economics, migration, and the sources and consequences of inequality and poverty. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Development Economics and the Journal of Human Resources. He has led several World Bank reports including Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia. Before joining the World Bank, he was a Researcher at CEDLAS. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). -
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Griffith, Breda
Growth and Competitiveness Group, World Bank InstituteBreda Griffith has worked as a consultant with WBI since 2005 in the areas of growth, poverty, gender, development, and labor markets. She has publications in refereed journals on development and language maintenance, entrepreneurship, and small business. Breda has also co-authored books on economic growth, poverty, gender and macroeconomic policy, new directions in development, labor markets in developing countries, and geography of growth. Previously she was a lecturer in DCU Business School, Dublin, Ireland and a Researcher at Queensland Treasury, Brisbane, Australia. -
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Willman, Alys M.
Social Cohesion and Violence Prevention TeamAlys Willman, PhD, is a Social Development Specialist for the Social Cohesion and Violence Prevention Team at the World Bank, taking responsibility for analytical and project work on urban violence, youth violence and gender-based violence. She is the co-author of Violence in the City (World Bank 2011), and Societal Dynamics and Fragility (World Bank 2012), as well as various other books and articles on urban violence, youth violence, and illicit economies. Ms. Willman has worked over a dozen countries throughout Latin America, Africa and East Asia, with NGOs, bilateral agencies and the World Bank. -
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Gregory, Neil
Investment Operations, International Finance CorporationNeil Gregory is Chief Strategy Officer for Investment Operations at the IFC. He was previously Chief of Strategy and Operations for the World Bank Group’s Financial and Private Sector Development Network, which produces global benchmarking products which include Doing Business. Before that he was a Manager in IFC’s South Asia Department with responsibility for investment strategy and advisory services. Earlier in his career, he was Adviser to the UK Executive Director of the IMF and World Bank Group and an Economic Adviser to the UK government. He holds economics degrees from Cambridge and Oxford and an MBA from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. Neil has published and taught on Foreign Direct Investment in developing countries, private sector development in China and India, benchmarking and the role of Development Finance Institutions. He has extensive work experience in South Asia, China, Ghana, the Caribbean and other developing countries. A UK national, he now lives in Washington DC. -
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Bhatti, Zubair Khurshid
Global Practice for GovernanceZubair K. Bhatti has worked with government, NGOs, multilateral development organizations, and the private sector, for over twenty years as magistrate, technical adviser, and development administrator. As member of the Pakistan Administrative Service, he served the provincial governments of Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces in several managerial and advisory positions for over ten years. His last government posting was District Coordination Officer of Jhang District in the Punjab province. His eclectic range of interests includes Chinese politics and society, nonprofit governance, civil service management, education service delivery, justice sector, citizen engagement and most recently communication technologies, innovation promotion and governance reforms. Currently, he is serving as Senior Public Sector Specialist with the World Bank Islamabad office.