PNoWB elects Congresswoman Betty McCollum as its new Chair

June 8-9, 2007 - PNoWB elects Congresswoman Betty McCollum as its new Chair. The PNoWB Board met on the 8-9th of June 2007, in Chantilly France and elected Congresswoman McCollum as the new Chair of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank. Monica Frassoni, MEP, Italy and Yunus Carrim, MP South Africa, were also appointed as the new Vice-Chairs of the PNoWB.

Read Betty McCollum biography

Read the letter from the New PNoWB Chair to World Bank President Nominee Robert Zoellick

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the 8th and 9th of June 2007 the PNoWB board of directors held a strategy retreat in Chantilly, France. Six of the nine PNoWB board members were present along with the PNoWB Coordinator as well as the Chief of Staff from the Chair’s office. PNoWB was grateful for the participation of three representatives of the World Bank’s Paris office, our main interlocutor with the World Bank, as well as the Director of International Relations at the Finnish Parliament who were invited to attend several sessions to discuss aspects of PNoWB’s relationship with the Bank and with other stakeholders in development.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The meeting was, above all, an opportunity for the Board to elect its new Chair following the resignation of previous Chair Hon Bert Koenders now Minister for Development Cooperation in the Netherlands. Between the resignation of Mr Koenders and the appointment of the new Chair, the PNoWB Board had at the last annual conference in Cape Town 15th-17th March 2007, appointed interim co-Chairs and had since agreed to a retreat in June to elect a single new Chair, US Congresswoman Betty McCollum. The Board also elected two new Vice-Chairs, Monica Frassoni, MEP, Italy, and Yunus Carrim, MP, South Africa. Board Members at the Retreat also thanked the interim co-Chairs, Janette Garin MP, Philippines, and Kimmo Kiljunen, MP Finland for their steer and great commitment shown to the Network in the period after the resignation of the previous Chair.