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Jean-Paul Azam, ARQADE, University of Toulouse
Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse I, Jean-Paul Azam's research themes include Economics of Developing Countries and Macroeconomics, Growth, International Economics and Public Economics.
Jean-Claude Berthelemy, University of Paris
Professor of Economics at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne). Previously, he was Director of the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales, the leading French think tank; specialized in International Economics (1998-2000) and was Head of Division at the OECD Development Centre in Paris (1993-1997). François Bourguignon, World Bank
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank. Before being named to his current position in 2003, François Bourguignon was Director of the Bank’s Development Research Group, and managing editor of the World Bank Economic Review. He has been an advisor to developing countries, the OECD, United Nations, European Commission, and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the French Prime Minister. From 1985-2003, he was Professor of Economics at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he founded and directed the Département et laboratoire d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (DELTA). He has held academic positions at the University of Chile and the University of Toronto, and been a Fellow of the Econometric Society. An expert on poverty, inequality, distribution and impact evaluation, among others, he has authored or edited several books, including The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution – Evaluation Techniques and Tools, and over 100 articles in leading international journals in economics, as well as dozens of working papers.
Abdoulaye Diagne, Senegal
The director of the Centre de recherche en économie appliquée (CRÉA) at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop/Dakar, Dr Diagne is also the coordinator of the Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies (MIMAP) program in Senegal. Supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the MIMAP program analyzes poverty reduction strategies in more than a dozen countries around the world.
Ben Eifert, World Bank
Joined the World Bank's Africa Region Chief Economist's office as an intern for the spring of 2002, and again as a JPA in October 2003 after finishing degrees in economics and international relations at Stanford University.
Augustin Fosu, African Economic Research Consortium
Director, Economic and Social Policy Division, UN Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, and honorary Research Fellow of the Rural Development Research Consortium, University of California-Berkeley. He is the erstwhile Director of Research of the African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi (May 1998-January 2004). Until August 2002, he was Professor of Economics, Oakland University, USA, where he served on the faculty for over twenty years. He was also Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Rochester, USA, during 1992-93. He received his doctorate (1979) and master's (1975) degrees in economics from Northwestern University, USA, and his bachelor’s with honors (distinction, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in mathematics and economics from Lawrence University, USA (1973). Dr. Fosu has published extensively in economic growth and development and in labor economics. He is ranked among the “top 500 economists” worldwide based on his published articles: http://student.vub.ac.be/~tcoupe/update/authorsbauwens.html. Prof. Fosu is coeditor of the Journal of African Economies (Oxford), and also serves on the editorial boards of the following journals: African Development Review, Journal of Development Studies, Oxford Development Studies, World Bank Economic Review, and World Development. He is a past president of the National Economic Association (1997) and of the African Finance and Economics Association (1998 and 1999), both based in the USA. A native of Ghana, Dr. Fosu resided in the USA for about thirty years. Alan Gelb, World Bank
Director, Development Policy, Development Economics Vice President's Office, The World Bank. Before assuming his current position in July 2004, Alan Gelb was the Bank’s Chief Economist for Africa. Before that, he was staff director of the 1996 World Development Report, From Plan to Market, and chief of the transition division in the Bank’s policy research department. He is a specialist on transition economies, financial systems, macroeconomic management, commodity prices and the economics and political economy of oil-exporting countries. He has published several books and scholarly articles on these and related subjects, and co-authored Can Africa Claim the 21st Century?, an authoritative study on African development.
Paulo Gomes, World Bank
He assumed his current role as executive director representing 25 sub-Saharan African countries on the World Bank’s board in 2002. In this capacity, he actively participates on the board’s budget committee and is vice-chairman of its committee on governance, vigorously pursuing both fairness and reform in the bank’s decision-making processes. Mr. Gomes began his career as an investment analyst at the French Center for Industrial Promotion before returning to his home country of Guinea-Bissau to serve as director of strategic planning, public investment and debt in the Ministry of Finance and Planning. After completing a master’s degree with honors in economic policy and management from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he first joined Monitor Group as a junior consultant, then became assistant to the executive director of Citizen Energy Corp. Mr. Gomes was principal adviser to Guinea-Bissau’s minister of finance before joining the World Bank in 1998.
Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University
Professor of the Practice of Economic Development. Previously, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (1994-2000), where he created the Research Department. He has served as Minister of Planning of Venezuela (1992-1993) and as a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He also served as Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. He was Professor of Economics at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA) (1985-1991) in Caracas, where he founded the Center for Public Policy. He also was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (1988-1991). His research interests include issues of growth, macroeconomic stability, international finance, and the social dimensions of development. He holds a PhD in Economics from Cornell University.
Larry Hinkle, World Bank
Mr. Hinkle has a Master of Public Affairs degree in Economics and Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and a BA in Economics from Harvard University.
Leonce Ndikumana, University of Massachusetts
Leonce Ndikumana's research is in applied macroeconomics and economic development. His main interest in macroeconomics is on the interactions among financial markets, credit systems, investment and long-run economic growth. Richard Newfarmer, World Bank
Richard Newfarmer is Economic Advisor in the International Trade Department and Prospects Group of the World Bank. Mr. Newfarmer was the lead author of the recently released Global Economic Prospects and Developing Countries 2003: Investing to Unlock Global Opportunities.
Stephen O'Connell, Swarthmore College
Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College and a World Bank Advisor. Boris Pleskovic, Research Manager, Development Economics World Bank
He previously served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Slovenia from 1991-1992 and taught economics at MIT and the Universities of Illinois and Cincinnati. He also serves as a board member of the World Bank Economic Review, Transition Newsletter and International Regional Science Review; Co-editor of ten books: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics; and of seven books: the Berlin Workshop Series, including Institutional Foundations of a Market Economy; published widely, including "Political Independence and Economic Reform in Slovenia," in The Transition in Eastern Europe, Chicago University Press and "Inter industry Flows in a General Equilibrium Model of Fiscal Incidence," Journal of Policy Modeling: Special Issue in Honor of Nobel Laureate, Wassily Leontief. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at MIT and a Fullbright Fellow at Harvard University; decorated by Charles University on the occasion of its 650th anniversary, Prague, 1998. He has BA from the University of Ljubljana, MA from Harvard University and Ph.D. from MIT. Vijaya Ramachandran, World Bank
Vijaya Ramachandran is on the faculty of Georgetown University, working on issues related to firm growth, entrepreneurship and foreign investment. She also serves as a consultant to the World Bank, working on investment climate issues in sub-Saharan Africa. Vijaya has previously taught at Duke University and has served as a consultant to the Harvard Institute for International Development, the World Bank Institute, and the United Nations. She has written articles on foreign direct investment in Asia and Africa, the industrial transformation in South Korea, manufacturing growth in India, and private sector development in Africa. She is currently working on a manuscript on the determinants of entrepreneurial behavior, using cross-country firm data. Vijaya received her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1991.
Lemma W. Senbet, University of Maryland
Professor Senbet is internationally recognized for his widely cited contributions to corporate and international finance, which have appeared in such journals as Journal of Finance , Journal of Business , Review of Financial Studies , etc. He has received numerous honors and awards. The 1986 survey ranked him third among world-wide contributing authors to the Journal of Finance for the period 1976-1985.
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