ECA GENDER WORKSHOP
Sharing the Growth Dividend:
Women in the ECA Region

              SPEAKERS' BIOS

 William Maloney is Lead Economist in the Chief Economist’s office of the Latin America and Caribbean Region (LCRCE). His recent emphasis has been on informal labor markets in Latin America and linkage to macroeconomic fluctuations. He has published on issues related to international trade, the impact and sequencing of liberalization, speculative attacks onWilliam Maloney is Lead Economist in the Chief Economist’s office of the Latin America and Caribbean Region (LCRCE). His recent emphasis has been on informal labor markets in Latin America and linkage to macroeconomic fluctuations. He has published on issues related to international trade, the impact and sequencing of liberalization, speculative attacks on currencies, and developing country labor markets.  currencies, and developing country labor markets.

 Katherine Terrell is a professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She is currently a visiting fellow at the World Bank. Her areas of interest are the effects of globalization on workers and firms in emerging markets including ECA and Latin America and the impact of specific government policies on labor markets and firms. She has published widely in academic journals.

 Outi Karkkainen. Education and training, skills and qualifications, if matching the labor market needs, inevitably are an asset that has a positive impact on integrating the labor market. The European Training Foundation has recently undertaken pilot studies on transition from school to work process of young school leavers (Ukraine and Serbia) and on migration patterns and HRD (Albania and Moldova) in transition countries of the ECA region.

The studies did not focus on gender differences in getting the first job or in using migration as an opportunity to get a job, but some preliminary findings of the studies do bring up differences between the sexes and raises questions about the gaps not only in terms of educational attainment between women and men, but also in the capacity and opportunity to use the qualifications and skills when looking for a first job or migrating.

 Simon Parker is a professor at the University of Durham and Director of the Centre of Entrepreneurship at Durham Business School. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is an Associate Editor of Small Business Economics and sits of the editorial advisory boards of several business related journals. His main research interests are the economics of self-employment and entrepreneurship. His recent book with the same title was published in 2004. He is widely published.

 Katherine Terrell is a professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She is currently a visiting fellow at the World Bank. Her areas of interest are the effects of globalization on workers and firms in emerging markets including ECA and Latin America and the impact of specific government policies on labor markets and firms. She has published widely in academic journals.

 Sammie Robinson is a professor in the College of Business at Praire View A&M University in Houston, Texas. Her area of interest is women in business, both corporate professionals and entrepreneurs. Current research focus is on gender differences in entrepreneurial behavior, issues faced by Women of Color Business Owners (WOCBO), and family-owned/managed firms.

 Estelle James is a former lead economist at the World Bank. She is principal author of Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth and a co-author of the forthcoming book entitled The Gender Impact of Social Security Reform. Her recent research has focused on social security reform, including the administrative costs of individual accounts, how to handle the annuity stage, and the gender impact of alternative systems.  She has published widely in professional journals.

 Annamaria Lusardi is professor of economics at Dartmouth College. She is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School. She is a member of the Technical Review Committee for the Bureau of Labor Statistics' National Longitudinal Surveys Program, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (CeRP), Turin, Italy. Her main areas of research are savings, Social Security and pensions, financial literacy and financial education, and entrepreneurship. Dr. Lusardi has won numerous research awards.

 Julie Agnew is a professor in the Economics and Finance Department at the College of William and Mary. Her area of interest is on how individuals invest in their 401(k) plans. Currently, she is a research associate at Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research.  She has published in academic journals.

 David McKenzie is Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He has carried out surveys of business owners in Latin America and South Asia. His areas of interest include micro enterprises, the informal sector, and migration.

 Cheryl Doss is the Director of Graduate Studies MA Program in International Relations at Yale University. Her areas of interest are in how social and economic changes affect the dynamics of decision-making within households. Her current work focuses on women’s access to assets, including land, asking what assets women are able to acquire and control and how this affects their well-being. 

 Agnes Quisumbing is a Senior Research Fellow in the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at IFPRI.  She co-leads a research program analyzing the factors that enable individuals, households, and communities to move out of poverty over the long term. Her current research interests include poverty, gender, property rights, and economic mobility. She previously led IFPRI’s multi-country project on Strengthening Development Policy through Gender and Intrahousehold Analysis.  This project focused on how resource allocation within households and families affects the design and outcome of development policies, and involved primary data collection in four developing countries, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and South Africa. She has also worked on women's land rights in Ghana, the Philippines, and Sumatra. She is currently involved in longitudinal studies in Bangladesh, Guatemala, and the Philippines. A citizen of the Philippines, Quisumbing joined IFPRI in 1995. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of the Philippines, Quezon City, and her A.B. in economics from De La Salle University in Manila. Before joining IFPRI, Quisumbing worked at the University of the Philippines, Diliman and Los Baños; the World Bank; Yale University; and the International Rice Research Institute. She has published widely in refereed journals in development economics and labor economics, and has written eight books and monographs, including Household Decisions, Gender, and Development:  A Synthesis of Recent Research, and Food Security in Practice:  Using Gender Research in Development.