     
 Daniel Kaufmann
Director
Daniel Kaufmann, Director en el Instituto del Banco Mundial (WBI), es considerado mundialmente como un experto, investigador y asesor lÃder en gobernabilidad y desarrollo. Con sus colegas ha sido pionero en desarrollar nuevas metodologÃas empÃricas y programas de acción apoyando a paÃses en sus programas de gobernabilidad y anticorrupción. Previamente se ha desempeñado en puestos en el Banco Mundial liderando los grupos de Gobernabilidad y Capacidad, tal como Finanzas, Regulación y Gobernabilidad, y fue un Economista Lider en economÃas en transición, y en el departamento de investigación. También fue uno de los autores del Reporte de Desarrollo Mundial sobre los Retos del Desarrollo.
A inicios de los noventas fue el primer Jefe de Misión del Banco Mundial en Ucrania, y subsecuentemente fue Académico Visitante en la Universidad de Harvard. Actualmente es también miembro de la Facultad del Foro Económico Mundial (Davos). Sus investigaciones en desarrollo económico, gobernabilidad, la economÃa informal, comercio internacional, tasa de cambio, inversión, corrupción, privatización, economÃa laboral y urbana han sido publicadas en las principales revistas académicas. De nacionalidad chilena, Daniel Kaufmann recibió su MaestrÃa y Doctorado en EconomÃa en Harvard, y su Bachiller en EconomÃa y EstadÃstica de la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén. Para detalles, visite:
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http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/kaufmann/  Roumeen Islam
Manager, WBI Poverty Reduction & Economic Management
Prior to joining WBI, Roumeen Islam was Director of the World Bank's World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets, leading a large multidisciplinary team of experts. The WDR is the Bank's annual flagship publication. From 1998 to 2000 she was advisor to the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President in the Bank's Development Economics group where she conducted reviews of country strategies, lending operations, and economic policies and supported initiatives undertaken by the Chief Economist. Between 1996 and 198 Ms. Islam was senior economist and program team leader for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. From 1993 to 1996 she served as a country economist for Morocco, and from 1991-1993 she served as a macroeconomist for Algeria and Morocco. Her work has covered a broad set of topics during this time ranging on public expenditure rationalization, fiscal stability, growth strategies, trade and exchange rate issues, sovereign debt rationalization, financial sector reform and private sector development.. Roumeen Islam joined the World Bank in 1990 through the Young Professionals Program. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, a Masters in Public Affairs (special field Economics and Public Policy) from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.  Anwar M. Shah
Lead Public Sector Management Specialist and Program Leader for Public Sector Governance
Dr. Anwar Shah is a fellow of the Institute of Public Economics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has previously served the Ministry of Finance, Government of Canada and Government of Alberta, Canada and held responsibilities for tax policy, municipal and local finances, fiscal transfers, federal-provincial and provincial-local fiscal relations. He also served USAID as Population and Health Economist; Pakistan Institute of Delopment Economics as a macroeconomist; the UN. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a Lead author and the 1992 World Development Report on Environment as a contributing author on global environment. Anwar Shah has published several books and numerous articles in leading economic and policy journals on governance, fiscal reform, fiscal federalism, local government organization and finance and global environment. He serves as a referee and a member of the editorial advisory boards for leading economic journals. 
Ronald MacLean-Abaroa
Lead Public Sector Management Specialist Ronald MacLean–Abaroa became in 1985 the first democratically elected mayor of La Paz in forty years and was re-elected to serve for four terms. He has held five national cabinet positions in Bolivia, and in March 2002 won his party's first-ever primary election and the nominatation as the presidential candidate of A.D.N. The June 2002 elections maked his first, unsuccessful bid for the presidency of Bolivia. Mr. MacLean-Abaroa received his B.Sc. in Development Economics (1971) from the University of Maryland and his MPA (1980) from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Research Fellow. He recently served as the Senior Governance Researcher of the Central America Project with the Harvard Institute for International Development, leading research on institutional reform and governance and working on issues of decentralization, devolution of government powers to local citizens, and anti-corruption strategies. Mr. MacLean has served as a consultant and advisor on governance and anti-corruption issues to numerous international organizations and governments. He chaired both the Economic and Social Council of the Andean Pact Countries (1977) and the Board of Directors of the Andean Development Corporation (2000), has held senior executive management positions in two of Bolivia's mining operations, and has sat on the boards of leading banks. Mr. MacLean now leads MacLean-Abaroa Consultores Ltd., a consulting company in Bolivia, and Poder Vecinal, a non-profit think-tank that promotes citizen empowerment and participation. A founding member of Transparency International, he is on their Advisory Council and served as the first chairman of TI-Latin America. He also currently acts as a director on the board of the Swiss-controlled AFP Futuro, one of Bolivia's two pension funds. MacLean-Abaroa has published academic papers, case studies, and three books. Recently he co-authored (with Robert Klitgaard and Lindsey Parris) a book on governance and corruption, Corrupt Cities: A Practical Guide to Cure and Prevention (ICS Press, California 2000). He has authored and led research on Central American municipalities with Mauricio Silva of Gobernabilidad y Transparencia (Sacdel, El Salvador 2000), and with Fernando Cajias he has published Cartas de Abaroa, a historical profile of his great-grandfather, a celebrated Bolivian hero.  Edouard Al-DahdahÂ
Operations Officer
Edouard Al-Dahdah has been working at the World Bank since 2001, first in the Middle East and North Africa Vice-Presidency, then at the World Bank Institute starting in 2004. He is one of the core authors of the award-winning World Bank report on "Better Governance for Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Enhancing Inclusiveness and Accountability", published in 2003, and is currently working on producing a companion volume. Edouard is currently working on governance and anticorruption technical assistance projects in Kuwait, Yemen, Algeria and Morocco. His fields of expertise include the political economy of institutional reforms and quantitative economic history. A Lebanese national, he did his graduate work at the University of Chicago and Georgetown University, and his undergraduate work at the American University of Beirut.
Diane Leslie Billups
Program Assistant  Diane Leslie Billups coordinates the preparation, organization and follow-up to the different activities of the team and oversees the maintanence of the governance and anti-corruption website. Ms. Billups joined the Bank in 1993. She is from Puerto Rico and holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Puerto Rico. 
Susana CarrilloÂ
Consultant Susana Carrillo has been working for a number of years in the development field. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as Chief of Program on poverty and governance issues in The Gambia with overall responsibility for West Africa; in Guatemala as a Chief of Program on governance and human rights issues and as a Strategic Operations Specialist in UNDP HQ. She joined the WBI Global Governance Program in 2004 and works providing technical assistance on governance and anti-corruption issues in Africa. Her work includes frontier areas in the governance agenda , such as accountability and oversight and political economy of reform. Susana obtained a Global Executive Masters from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; a Masters in Development Studies from the University of Geneva and has post graduate studies in Economics from Birmingham University. She is a Peruvian national and resident of Brazil. 
Elizabeth Crespo
Program Assistant  Elizabeth Crespo coordiates the prepation, organization follow-up to the different activities of the team and oversees the maintenance of the governance and anti-corruption web site. Elizabeth Crespo joined the Bank in 1993. She is from Venezuela.  K. Migara O. De Silva
Economist
Migara De Silva joined the Bank in 1995 and has worked in DECVP and OED before joining WBI. He has worked in a number of WBI programs and has build a comprehensive training program on intergovernmental fiscal relations in Russia to train central and regional/local government officials in all of the 7 Regions (Okrugs) in Russia. He is also the task manager in the joint programs on Central Asia and the Caucuses which were launched under Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (FDI) by WBI, UNDP (Bratislava) and the Local Government Initiative (LGI) of the Soros Foundation in Budapest. Prior to becoming a member of the public sector governance team, Migara has worked extensively and later co-managed a work program (called "Brain Trust" Program) funded by the Government of Japan through WBI. In addition, he has worked on public sector reform and has published papers on the impact of resource booms on growth, institutions and economic growth He has graduate degrees from the former Soviet Union and Masters and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.  Maria González de Asis
Senior Public Sector Specialist
Maria González de Asis has been at the World Bank since 1997, where she has concentrated on public sector reform. Most recently, she has been in the field, disseminating emerging best practice in governance and anti-corruption worldwide at the national and municipal levels. Her publications include: “International Corruption†(Claves 1996), “Judicial Reform and Corruption†(La Revista 1997) and “La Burocracia Española†(Revista de Derecho 1996). Ms. González de Asis has a Ph.D. in Law from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and a Master's degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University. Before joining the World Bank, Ms. González de Asis worked at Transparency International in Washington, Berlin and Peru.  Massimo Mastruzzi
Research Analyst
Massimo Mastruzzi is a member of the Global Governance team at the World Bank Institute. Mr. Mastruzzi joined the World Bank Institue in 2000 and worked in the Attacking Poverty Program before joining Global Governance in 2002. While at the World Bank, Mr. Mastruzzi's work has focused on statistical and econometric analysis, with particular interest on issues related to governance, economic development and international finance. Recent publications include "Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?" with Dani Kaufmann and Diego Zavaleta (2002), and "Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002" with Dani Kaufmann and Aart Kraay (2003). He received a Master in Economics and a Master in European Studies from Georgetown University.
 Djordjija Petkoski
Lead Enterprise Structuring Specialist and Head of Private Sector Development team at the WBI
Djordjija Petkoski is Lead Specialist at the World Bank Institute and the head of the Private Sector team. Since joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr. Petkoski has focused on privatization and restructuring, corporate governance, corporate responsibility, and leadership and values, with work experience in the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the early nineties and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979-80. He has published extensively on issues of strategic management of complex technical, economic and social systems. Some of his publications include "Stability Analysis of Large-scale Economic Systems Which Have a Multi-time Scale," in Applied Decision Analysis and Economic Behavior (Boston and the Gange 1984); "Knowledge-based Systems for Robustness Analysis of Large-Scale Economic Systems," in Systems Theoretical Methods in Economic Modelling (Pergamon Press 1991); and "Emilija: Harvard Business School Case Study No. 9597-053" (1997). Before coming to the World Bank, Mr. Petkoski was the Director of the International Post-Graduate School in Large Scale Systems and professor at the University of Novi Sad. A Macedonian national, Mr. Petkoski is married with two children and received his Master’s degree in Public Administration at Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Zagreb, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.  Rick Stapenhurst
Senior Public Sector Management Specialist
Rick Stapenhurst is a member of the Governance team at the World Bank Institute. Mr. Stapenhurst joined the World Bank in 1996, and has concentrated on issues in accountability and integrity, political risk analysis, investment decision making, government policy development and implementation, and institutional analysis and assessment. He has worked throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as having spent time in the Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe. His publications include Political Risk Around the North Atlantic (Macmillan Press/St. Martin's 1993), Industrial Democracy Today (McGraw Hill-Ryerson 1979), and numerous articles in the business and academic press. A Canadian citizen, Mr. Stapenhurst completed his doctorate of business administration in 1989 at the International Graduate School, and has Masters degrees in Business Administration and Development Studies. Before coming to the World Bank, Mr. Stapenhurst was the Director of Multilateral Development Banks at the Canadian International Development Agency and an Adjunct Professor for International Marketing at the University of Ottawa and at McGill University. 
Boris WeberÂ
Consultant Boris Weber works on WBI's global governance program and, as part of the diagnostics team, on in-country surveys assessing the quality and integrity of public services. Previous assignments in WBI’s capacity development division and the OECD-directorate for public governance allowed him to work on a broad range of issues from citizen’s participation to human resources aspects of public management. He has authored studies on senior staffing and the political/administrative interface, on political accountability and the role of the legislature and on the democratic deficit of the European Union. He has a particular interest in the demand side of governance and the role of the media. In part this is due to his prior career in journalism. Boris has worked for leading print, radio and TV media and he has received journalistic awards in the USA and Germany. As a Chief Editor in Charge he has been responsible for running a major current affairs program on national German TV for over eight years. Boris is an Ancien Elève of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration where he has been trained in a French-German government program for young executives. He has earned a post-graduate Master’s degree in international public governance from the Sorbonne University and the University of Potsdam in cooperation with Sciences-Po, Paris, and the Humboldt University, Berlin; and he has earned a Master’s of law (LL.M) from the Sorbonne and the University of Cologne.  |
