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 | Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili
Vice President Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili, a Nigerian national, was appointed Vice President for the Africa Region in 2007. She oversees more than 1500 staff and is responsible for the delivery of projects and economic and sectoral work in 47 Sub-Saharan countries. In fiscal year 2008, $5.7 billion was committed in new project lending and technical assistance to Africa, in addition to more than 100 analytical studies. Oby joined the Bank from her most recent position as Minister of Education in the Government of Nigeria, where she led a comprehensive reform program within the education sector including: . Restructuring and refocusing the ministry for the attainment of Education for All (EfA) targets and Millennium Development Goals. She also introduced the Public-Private Partnership models for education service delivery; revamped the Federal Inspectorate Service as an improved quality assurance mechanism and introduced transparency and accountability mechanisms for better governance of the budget. Ms. Ezekwesili led the establishment of the Innovation & Vocational Enterprise Institutions initiatives which focuses on the development of skills for economic competitiveness and--in conjunction with the Nigerian Stock Exchange-- launched the “Adopt-A-School” program, an initiative that fosters philanthropy by corporations; community groups and individuals. Ms Ezekwesili began her career with Deloitte & Touche where she worked as an auditor, management and financial services consultant. She then served as a founding Director of Transparency International (TI) and as TI’s Director for Africa from 1994 to1999. Between 2000 and 2002, she worked with Professor Jeffrey Sachs as Director of the Harvard-Nigeria Economic Strategy program, during which time she was also appointed as an aide to President Obasanjo. In 2003, she was designated Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence. As Minister of Solid Minerals from 2005 to 2006, Ms. Ezekwesili oversaw the passage of the Minerals and Mining Act, the establishment of the Nigerian Mining Cadastre Office and the opening of the sector to private participation. Ms. Ezekwesili also served as the Chairperson of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative from 2004 and led the voluntary sign-on of Nigeria to the EITI Principles as well as the first ever process, financial and physical audit of Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. Ms. Ezekwesili is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Masters in International Law & Diplomacy from the University of Lagos, a Masters in Public Policy & Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelors degree from the University of Nigeria. In 2006, Ms. Ezekwesili was given the national award of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR). She is married and has three sons. | | Â | Â |
| Colin Bruce
Director, Strategy and Operations, Africa Region, World Bank Colin Bruce, a Guyanese national, joined the World Bank in August 1988 through its Young Professionals program. Since then, he has held regional and corporate assignments such as a country economist for India and Kenya, an adviser in the Office of the Managing Director, Operations, and Country Director in Eastern Africa. Mr. Bruce assumed his current position as Director, Strategy and Operations in July 2008. His primary responsibilities include supporting the Vice President of the Africa Region in delivering her regional and corporate accountabilities, in close collaboration with country directors; overseeing execution of the agreed strategic agenda and monitoring regional deliverables (including commitments under IDA15); and coordinating key strategic partnerships such as with the African Union and African Development Bank, and Governments of Japan and United Kingdom. Operations in the 48 countries that comprise Sub-Saharan Africa currently account for a portfolio of around $23.3 billion. Last year alone, $$5.68 billion was committed for 91 new projects. Over the years his work has focused on country and sector specific development challenges as well as broader issues of aid effectiveness. For example, in India during the last 1990s he worked on fiscal decentralization, structural reforms, and rural finance. As Senior Manager in the World Bank’s Operational Policy and Country Services Division during 2001-2005, Mr. Bruce served as co-chair within the global working group on aid effectiveness and donor practices set up by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. He also chaired the global steering group that was responsible for the ministerial forum on aid effectiveness held in Paris in March 2005, and for the resulting Paris Declaration. Mr. Bruce holds a Ph.D in Economics from McGill University in Canada and a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Public Administration from London University. He is married and has a teenage daughter and adolescent son. | | Â Â | Â | | Michel Wormser
Director, Operations and Strategy Michel Wormser, a French national, joined the World Bank Group in 1978 as a Young Professional. He assumed his current position in January 2008. As one of the region’s two Directors for Operations and Strategy, Michel oversees operations in the 48 countries that comprise Sub-Saharan Africa. The current portfolio of projects in the region totals $23.3 billion and last year alone, $5.68 billion was committed for 91 new projects. Prior to his current position, Mr. Wormser was Sector Director for both the Sustainable Development Network and, before that, for the Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure Network for the Africa Region where he oversaw the region’s largest sectoral portfolio, supporting projects in energy, urban development, water supply, water resource management, transport, financial sector and private sector development. Previously, he was Senior Advisor to the Vice President, Private Sector Development, and in 2000 became Director of the Project Finance & Guarantees Department During his early years at the Bank, Michel held a number of positions—from Principal Financial Specialist to Division Chief—across a number of units including the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) East Asia Department, the World Bank’s South Asia Industrial Finance Division, and the World Bank’s Energy Projects Department. For a two-year period, between 1996 and 1998, Mr. Wormser joined Société Générale (SG) under the World Bank staff exchange program. As Director of SG’s Project Finance Department, he was responsible for advising and arranging limited recourse financing of power projects, including Azito, a 220 MW Independent Power Producer in Cote d’Ivoire, using a combination of IFC instruments and the first IDA partial risk guarantee to catalyze private financing for this infrastructure project. Mr. Wormser has a diploma from Ecole Superieure de Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (France) and an MBA (Finance and Accounting) from UC Berkeley. | |  |  |  | Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist Shantayanan (Shanta) Devarajan, a Sri Lankan national, joined the World Bank in 1991. He assumed his current position as Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region in 2008. The office of the Chief Economist provides guidance on Bank programs and activities in the sub-Saharan Africa region, analyzing both economic and sector programming to ensure the coherence of regional needs and Bank programming. Furthermore, the office of the Chief Economist is one of the primary voices within the Bank for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on the economic conditions, trends, and forecasts of the sub-Saharan region. Prior to this assignment, from 2004 onwards, Shanta was Chief Economist for the South Asia Region position, following three years as Chief Economist for the Human Development Network, which covers areas such as health, education, nutrition and population. Earlier positions include Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group. He was the Director of the World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People. Before joining the Bank, Shanta was on the faculty at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author and co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan’s research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources, and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Mr. Devarajan received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He speaks French fluently . | | Â | Â |  | Khaled Sherif
Chief Administrative Officer Mr. Sherif, an Egyptian national, joined the Bank in 1990 as a Young Professional. He has since held numerous positions, the most recent assignment being CAO of the Human Development Network (HDNVP). | | Â | | Ruth Kagia
Country Director
South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, Madagascar, and Mauritius Ruth Kagia, a Kenyan national, joined the World Bank in 1990. She was appointed Country Director for Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland in the Bank’s Africa Region on August 1, 2008. Based in Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, Ms. Kagia is responsible for leading the Bank’s dialogue and work program to support these countries accelerate growth and achieve sustainable development. In that context, she also oversees the scaling-up of Bank engagement in the five middle income countries (MICs) in the portfolio. The two International Development Association (IDA)-eligible countries have a portfolio of some 30 projects totaling commitments of over $1 billion, while lending in the MIC countries, where Bank enagagement has been primarily knowledge-driven, is slated to grow to more than $3 billion by end of 2010. Prior to assuming her current position, Ms. Kagia was Sector Director for Education in the Bank. where she provided strategic oversight and coordination of the global education sector staffing and work program, and led the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals agenda on education, including the establishment of the flagship "Education for All Fast Track Initiative." Ms. Kagia's experience includes work as an Education Specialist in the Bank’s Africa and the East Asia Regions; as a Sector Manager for Human Development in the Africa Region, and then as Director for Strategy and Operations in the Human Development Network anchor. Before joining the World Bank, Ms. Kagia worked in Kenya and the Southern and Eastern Africa region, where she held senior positions in teaching, research and management, including an assignment with UNICEF. Ms. Kagia holds degrees from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and Harvard University in the United States | | Â | Â | | Mary Barton-Dock
Country Director
Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, C.A.R., Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe Ms. Barton-Dock, an American national, joined the Bank in 1993 in the Young Professionals Program and was assigned as an Economist to the Agriculture and Environment Division in the Central and Indian Ocean Department. Since then, she has held various positions, her most recent assignment being Sector Manager for Environment, Rural and Social Development in the Africa Region. | | Â | Â | | Ishac Diwan
Country Director
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea
Based in Accra, Ghana Mr. Diwan, a Canadian national joined the World Bank in 1987 through the Young Professionals Program as an Economist in the Debt and International Investment Division of the International Economics Department. He has since held various positions, his most recent assignment being Country Director, Ethiopia and Sudan . | | Â | Â | | Johannes Zutt
Country Director
Comoros, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda, Seychelles | | Â | Â | | Mr. John McIntire
Country Director
Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda
Based in Washington, D.C. Mr. McIntire, a US national, joined the Bank in 1989 as an Agricultural Economist in Agriculture Operations in the Latin America and Caribbean Region. He has since held various positions, including Country Director for Senegal, Cape Verde, the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, and Sector Director, ESSD. His most recent assignment was Senior Adviser for Sustainable Development in the Africa Region. | |  |  | | Michael Baxter
Country Director
Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Based in Maputo, Mozambique Mr. Baxter, an Australian national, joined the Bank in 1977 through the Young Professionals Program. He has since held various positions, his most recent assignment being Senior Manager, Leadership and Organization Effectiveness, Human Resources Vice Presidency. In his new position, Mr. Baxter's top three priorities are to (a) steer the Bank's support to our client's sustainable development strategies and, within this, to apply the results-oriented approach of the Africa Region; (b) further strengthen close and effective partnerships with clients and donor counterparts; and (c) manage the country office staff, including recruitment evaluation and career development. | |  |  | | Madani Tall
Country Director
Benin, Togo, Mauritania, Cote D'Ivoire, Niger Madani M. Tall, a Malian national, joined the Bank in 1989. He was appointed Country Director for the five West African countries in July 2008, a position he assumed following four years as Country Director for Senegal, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Niger. Based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Mr. Tall is responsible for leading the Bank’s dialogue on sustainable development with stakeholders in the five client countries, and for overseeing a project portfolio of some 40 projects, representing commitments of $1.5 billion, as well as a significant body of economic and sector work. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Tall served as the World Bank’s Country manager for Cameroon, Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea. Known for his team-building skills, it was during this period, in 2003, that Mr. Tall was recipient of the World Bank’s Staff Association Good Manager Award. Earlier assignments include Senior Economist, Lead Operations Officer and Senior Agriculture Economist in the Middle East and North Africa Region. Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Tall worked as a Program Officer and Researcher for AFRICARE, a Washington-based NGO. Mr. Tall holds graduate degrees in Economics, specializing in Agricultural Economics and Natural Resources Economics, from the University of Maryland and the University of West Virginia in the United States. He speaks fluent English, French, Fula and Manding. | |  |  | | Mark Tomlinson
Director
Regional Integration
Mark Tomlinson joined the World Bank Group as a Young Professional in 1984 after which he was assigned to the Industry Department as an Economist. In 1987, he transferred to the Africa Technical Department's Industry and Energy Division. A year later he took up the position of Economist in Asia Country Department IV, and in 1990 was assigned to the New Delhi Resident Mission, where he was promoted to Senior Country Economist in 1991. At the end of 1991, Mr. Tomlinson joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as Senior Project Manager. While with EBRD, he was promoted to Director, Energy Utilities and subsequently appointed as Country Director for Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia. In September 1997, Mr. Tomlinson returned to the Bank as Sector Manager of the Africa Region's Infrastructure and Energy Family, Energy Unit. On July 1, 2000, Mr. Tomlinson assumed the position of Country Director for Nigeria. | | Â | Â | |
Kenichi Ohashi
Country Director
Ethiopia and Sudan Mr. Ohashi, a Japanese national, joined the World Bank in 1979 through the Young Professionals Program as an Economist in the Investment Department, Investment Strategy Division. He has since held various positions, his most recent assignment being Country Director, Nepal in the South Asia Region. | | Â | Â |  | Marilou Uy
Sector Director
Finance and Private Sector Development Ms. Uy, a Filipino national, joined the Bank in 1985 as a Young Professional. She has since held various positions, her most recent assignment being Senior Adviser in the Financial & Private Sector Development Vice-Presidency. In her new position, Ms. Uy’s top three priorities will be to: i) provide strategic vision for the Africa Region’s work in the areas of financial and private sector development; ii) lead FPD's contribution to the implementation of the Africa Action Plan with particular emphasis on strengthening analytical and multi-sector aspects of the operational work and deepening collaboration with development partners; and iii) lead and motivate the regional FPD management team and staff, both Washington- and country-based. | | Â | Â | | Habib Fetini
Country Director
Senegal, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Mali Habib Fetini, a Tunisian national, joined the Bank in 1993. He was appointed Country Director in 2008. Based in Dakar, Habib is responsible for leading the Bank’s dialogue on sustainable growth and development with client Governments as well as with other stakeholders such as civil society and the donor community. He is also responsible for operations and for economic and sector work across the five countries, and oversees a project portfolio of US$1.5 billion commitment. His most recent assignment prior to assuming his current position was Lead Economist and Country Program Coordinator in the Bank’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, where he was responsible for guiding and sustaining the Bank’s policy dialogue on the growth, poverty reduction and governance agendas and lending across (Iran, Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti. Earlier assignments include Senior Economist in the MENA and East Asia Regions Prior to joining the World Bank, he taught Economics at the University of Tunis. Habib holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkley and a Doctorate in Economics and International Finance from the University Aix-Marseille in France. He has published on a variety of areas, including Institutional and Economic Development, Energy Pricing and Subsidies Reform, and Oil Wealth Management, Mr. Fetini speaks fluent French, and Arabic | | Â | Â | | Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly
Country Director
Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo Ms. Marie-Nelly, a French national, joined the Bank in August 1994 as a Public Enterprise Specialist in the West and Central Africa Industry & Energy Operations Department. She has since held various positions, her most recent assignment being Senior Program Manager of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline in the Africa Region Vice Presidency (AFRVP). | |  |  |  | Onno Ruhl
Country Director
Nigeria Onno Ruhl, a Dutch national, joined the Bank in 1993. He was appointed Country Director for Nigeria in March 2008. Based in Abuja, Nigeria, in addition to leading the Bank’s dialogue on sustainable growth and development with the Nigerian Government and other stakeholders, Onno oversees operations and economic and sector work in Africa’s most populous nation. Over the last four years, the Nigerian portfolio of projects has more than doubled US$1.2 billion to about US$2.9 billion. Prior to assuming his current position, Onno was Manager for the Africa Region’s Results and Learning Group, charged with monitoring and enhancing the effectiveness and results of the region’s operations, together with staff learning. Earlier positions include Advisor to the Private Sector and Infrastructure Network, Country Manager for the DRC, and Lead and Principal Private Sector Development Specialist. He also worked in the Europe and Central Asia and Middle East and North Africa Regions as a Senior Guarantee Officer. He has worked extensively during his Bank career on regional trade facilitation projects and in the area of privatization. Onno joined the Bank from the Embassy of the Netherlands in Washington DC, where he was Second Secretary (EC), and Alternate Director for the Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). He was an Economist at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr. Ruhl has an MA in Macroeconomics and International Economic Relations from the University of Amsterdam. | | Â Â | | Sudhir Shetty
Sector Director
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sudhir Shetty, an American national, joined the Bank in 1987 through the Young Professionals Programme. He was appointed to his current position in 2005. As Sector Director, Sudhir leads the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) department in the Africa Region of the Bank, which is made up of about 150 staff, more than a third of whom are based in 37 country offices across the continent. Through a program of analytical work, lending projects and technical assistance, this group plays a key role in implementing the World Bank’s Africa Action Plan with particular emphasis on strengthening country-led efforts to assure shared growth; build accountable and effective institutions; and deepen the results orientation of development strategies. Prior to assuming his current position, Sudhir managed the Poverty Reduction group in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Vice Presidency of the Bank. He previously held a number of positions as an economist in both the Africa and East Asia and Pacific regions. Sudhir has a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. Prior to joining the Bank in 1987, he was an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Duke University.
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Eric Chinje
Manager
External Affairs Mr. Chinje, a Cameroonian national, joined the Bank in 1992 as a consultant in the Africa External Affairs Unit. He has since held various positions in the Bank, his most recent assignment being an External Assignment in the African Development Bank where he was Head of External Affairs and Communications. | | Â | Â | | Gerard Byam
Sector Director
Quality Control and Knowledge Management Gerard Byam, a national of Trinidad and Tobago, joined the Bank in 1988. He assumed his current position as Director of the Operational Quality and Knowledge Department in the World Bank’s Africa Region in March 2004. The department advises staff and management on the design as well as implementation of all lending operations in the region. The department provides core services to the Region’s operations in Procurement, Financial Management, and Monitoring and Evaluation and monitors and reports on the quality of the region’s portfolio. The department also includes a unit dedicated to the provision of core services in support of the region’s HIV/AIDS operations. It also manages the region’s program of Staff Learning for the 1600 staff working in the region, in Headquarters and across 35 Country Offices. Prior to this position, Mr. Byam was the Sector Manager of the Financial Sector Development Unit in the Africa Region. Before then, he worked on a wide range of issues, across a number of positions, including community driven social action programs and private sector development. Two of his tasks involved leading the World Bank teams that supported the Government of Tanzania in restructuring its banking system and the reform of Kenya’s pensions sector. Mr. Byam began his professional career as an Economist for the Power Authority of the state of New York, and then joined the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in Barbados in 1978 as an Economist. In 1982 he moved to Antigua as CDB’s contribution to a multi-donor technical assistance program for the eastern Caribbean. The program included representatives of the IMF, World Bank and UNDP. He returned to CDB’s headquarters in Barbados in 1987. During the period 1986 to 1988, he participated in several technical assistance missions to Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria and provided technical assistance to the Governments of Belize and Trinidad and Tobago. Mr. Byam has degrees from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and the University of British Columbia. He is a national of Trinidad and Tobago and is married and has three children. | | Â | Â | | Yaw Ansu
Sector Director
Human Development Yaw Ansu, a Ghanaian national, is the Sector Director for Human Development of the Africa Region. In this position, he provides a strategic vision for the Region’s work in the areas of education, health, nutrition and population, and social protection; drives an analytical work program and operations to effectively pursue the sector’s goals, including the applicable Millennium Development Goals; and leads and motivates the Sector Leadership Group. Prior to taking this position, he was the Director of Economic Policy in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network for two years. Earlier, Mr. Ansu was Country Director for Zambia and Zimbabwe, and before that of Nigeria. He has also been an Economic Advisor in the Office of the Senior Vice-President Development Economics and Chief Economist of the Bank. Mr. Ansu joined the Bank in 1984 as an Economist in the Development Research Department, Development Strategy Division. His work in the Bank has focused on macroeconomic management and reforms as well as economic growth, diversification and competitiveness. | | Â Â Â | | Inger Andersen
Sector Director
Sustainable Development Inger Andersen, a Danish national, joined the World Bank in 1999 working on water resource management in Africa. She oversees World Bank investments in Agriculture, Rural Development, Conflict and Social Development, Energy, Environment, Water and Sanitation, Urban Development, Transport, and Water Resource Management in the Africa Region. She manages over 400 staff and investments worth about $16.5 billion with about $4 billion in new projects approved annually. Since taking this position in May 2008, her focus has been on providing intellectual leadership to the Sustainable Development agenda in Africa by fine tuning and upgrading strategies and identifying synergies across sectors to attain a more coherent and higher level of impact for Africa’s development. Inger’s previous positions at the Bank include Sector Manager in Africa’s Water Supply and Sanitation and Urban Development unit, and Director of Sustainable Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region. As an environment and water specialist, Inger’s focus was on hydro-diplomacy and leadership of transboundary water initiatives and investments, characterized by challenging political and legal dimensions, sensitive negotiations and dispute resolution. In this capacity, she has negotiated complex international waters treaties, including the Niger, the Senegal and the Nile Rivers. More recently, she has worked with the Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians on transboundary water related activities. Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Andersen worked at the United Nations in New York in a variety of positions including managing projects addressing international waters, rural and environmental concerns. In addition to operations work, Inger has led several corporate reform initiatives at the Bank, including task forces on the Bank’s internal justice and conflict resolution and performance management systems respectively. Ms. Andersen holds a MA in Development Economics and African Politics from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. She is fluent in Danish and English, and proficient in Arabic, and French. |
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