Senior Economist, Finance and Private Sector Development, South Asia Region, The World Bank 

 mdutz@worldbank.org

Mark Dutz is Sr. Economist in the World Bank’s South Asia Finance and Private Sector Development Department. His responsibilities include helping partner governments spur competition and entrepreneurship, enhance the environment for innovation, promote private participation in public services, and more broadly assist in facilitating the growth of agile enterprises. Prior to joining this unit, Dr. Dutz was on leave as Sr. Advisor to the State Minister of Economy on infrastructure and PSD issues in Ankara, Turkey. Before that, Dr. Dutz worked for 3 years in the Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD, where he was responsible for municipal infrastructure project review in addition to policy and research work on investment climate, competition policy and regulatory issues.

During an earlier period at the World Bank, Dr. Dutz worked on competition, infrastructure and PSD issues, first by providing targeted advice across the Bank’s countries of operation, then in an operational capacity in Latin America, and finally as a member of the Competition and Regulation Task Force in the Office of the Chief Economist – where he also designed a core course for the World Bank Institute on competition policy for practitioners. Dr. Dutz has taught at Princeton University, has worked as consultant to OECD’s Competition Division and to the WTO, and has published related articles in journals and monographs. He holds a PhD in economics from Princeton University and a Masters in public affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.