Country Director for Russia

Michal Rutkowski, The World Bank's Country Director for the Russian Federation

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January 1, 2012 - Michal Rutkowski is the newly appointed Country Director for the Russian Federation.

Work Experience

• 1995-96 – World Bank's Country Economist for the Russian Federation
• 1996-1997 - Director of the Office for Social Security Reform of the Government of Poland where he led the team that prepared a comprehensive pension reform package.
• 1998-2004 - back in the World Bank, as Sector Manager for social protection, he led a team of professionals working on pensions, labor market and social assistance reforms in 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as in Turkey.
• 2003 - acting Sector Director for Human Development in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region of the World Bank.
• 2004 - World Bank's Human Development Sector Director in the Middle East and North Africa Region.
• 2008 - an equivalent position in the South Asia Region where he led the department responsible for lending and non-lending World Bank assistance to South Asia Region countries in the areas of education, health, nutrition and population, labor markets, microfinance, and social protection.

Publications

• 1994 - "Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe", (ed. by Nicholas Barr, Oxford University Press, 1994).
• 1996-97 - Director of the Office for Social Security Reform of the Government of Poland where he led the team that prepared a comprehensive pension reform package “Security through Diversity”,
• 1994-95 – was a member of the core team that wrote the World Development Report 1995: “Workers in an Integrating World”
• 2000 - co-authored a study ”The Evolution of Pension Systems in Central and Eastern Europe” (with D. Lindeman and O. Sluchynskyy, World Bank 2000)
• 2003 - one of the authors and editors of the book “Pension Reform in Europe: process and progress” (with R. Holzmann and M. Orenstein, Washington, 2003)
• 2005 - one of the authors of the World Bank position paper on pensions “Old-Age Income Support in the 21st Century” (World Bank 2005).

Education

• Warsaw School of Economics (Ph.D. in economics, 1987)
• London School of Economics (post-graduate studies)
• Associate Professor teaching Economics and doing research work in Labor Economics, Comparative Economics, and Macroeconomics in the Institute for Economic Policy of the Warsaw School of Economics (1987-88)
• Research work in the area of labor, education, business development and productivity in the Centre for Labour Economics and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (1989-90).
• Executive Development Program at the Harvard Business School (1999)
• Leadership for Collective Intelligence Program run by Dialogos (2009-10)
• Member of the European Economic Association, the American Association for Comparative Economic Studies, and the European Association of Labor Economists.

Michal Rutkowski at Wikipedia