The 2006 Global Monitoring Report was authored by a team led by Mark Sundberg, Lead Economist with the World Bank's Development Economics Vice Presidency, under the guidance of the Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist, Francois Bourguignon. Core Team: Chapter Authors: Core Team: Mark Sundberg
Mark Sundberg is Lead Economist in the Development Economics (Research) Vice-presidency. He is lead author for the 2006 Global Monitoring Report. Prior to this he worked for three years in the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist’s office undertaking policy review and advising on Bank operations and analytic products. The previous twelve years were mainly as a country economist, covering India and Pakistan (1999-2002), Russia and Turkey (1995-96, 1998-99), Vietnam, Burma, Laos, and Thailand (1991-94), and Ghana (1990). He was a contributing author for the 1990 World Development Report on Poverty. From 1997 to 1998 he was on leave from the Bank working as the Salomon Smith Barney (Citigroup) regional chief economist for Asia, based in Hong Kong. His recent publications include: Absorptive Capacity and Achieving the MDGs: The Case of Ethiopia (with Hans Lofgren, IMF 2006), and Constraints to Achieving the MDGs with Scaled Up Aid (February 2006, United Nations DESA Working Paper No. 15, with Francois Bourguignon). He holds a Ph.D in Economics from Harvard University, and a college degree from Yale University. Brian Levy
Brian Levy currently is Adviser, Public Sector Governance in the World Bank. He worked in the World Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003 on the challenges of strengthening the institutional underpinnings of African development, for the last four years as sector manager of the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building Unit. He was a member of the core team which produced the World Bank’s 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World. He has published numerous books and articles on the interactions between public institutions, the private sector and development in Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere, most recently editing (jointly with Sahr Kpundeh) the volume, Building State Capacity in Africa (World Bank Institute, 2004) Prior to joining the Bank, he was assistant professor in development economics at Williams College, Massachusetts. Punam Chuhan
Punam Chuhan is a Lead Economist in the Development Economics Vice Presidency. She is a member of the core team that produced the 2006 Global Monitoring Report. Her current work includes analyzing trends and developments in official development assistance, addressing issues in the scaling up of aid to poor countries, and exploring the links between donor allocations and recipient policies. She has worked on monitoring and assessing vulnerability to external shocks, analyzing the determinants of private capital flows, and assessing debt workout mechanisms. She represents the Bank in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics and has worked closely with staff from the BIS, ECB, IMF, and OECD in establishing new international standards on the measurement and reporting of debt and other financial obligations and in preparing the new Debt Guide. Before coming to the Bank, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. While there, she evaluated the macroeconomic performance and prospects of large emerging market economies and analyzed the effect of international financial market developments on these economies financing strategies. She also prepared country risk reports that were used for establishing country-lending exposure for U.S. banks. Ceren Ozer
Ceren Ozer is a consultant in the Development Economics Group. She was a core member of the Global Monitoring Report 2006 team where she focused on developing a governance monitoring framework as part of the Millennium Development Goals monitoring. Prior joining the World Bank she worked at the Center for Global Development where she co-authored A Better Globalization: Legitimacy , Governance and Reform with Kemal Dervis; and developed and implemented a computable general equilibrium model for Trade Policy and Global Poverty. Ceren worked in Southeast Anatolia for the UNDP and Turkish Government. She received her bachelor's degree in economics from Bogazici University (Turkey); and her master's degree in International Economics and International Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS. She is pursuing her PhD at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Manuel Felix
Manuel Felix is a consultant in the Office of the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President for Development Economics. He has been a core member of the Global Monitoring team for last three consecutive years. His field of expertise and contributions to the GMRs include monitoring international aid to middle and low income countries and monitoring the role of International Financial Institutions. For six years he has held a variety of assignments while working for the Principal Chief Economist and the Chief Economist of two other regional offices: Latin America and Middle East and North Africa. In 2000 he obtained a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.
Brendan Fitzpatrick
Brendan Fitzpatrick is a Junior Professional Associate in the Development Economics Vice Presidency. He is a member of the core team that produced the 2006 Global Monitoring Report. Brendan’s current research is in aid effectiveness and donor selectivity. Prior to joining the Bank in 2005, Brendan was completing his Master’s degree in Public Administration in International Development at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He worked with USAID’s Agriculture and Rural Enterprise Development team in Rwanda. Brendan also spent a year working with a small NGO in Duran, Ecuador, focusing on education programs for the poor. In 2001 Brendan received Bachelor’s degrees in Bioengineering and Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chapters Authors: Anton Op de Beke
Anton Op de Beke is a Senior Economist in the IMF’s Policy Development and Review Department. Before joining the IMF in 1985, he worked for the Netherlands Ministry of Finance. In the IMF he has worked in several area and functional departments, and on developing, transition and developed countries. His present functions include a coordinating responsibility for the IMF’s work in promoting good governance and combating corruption. This involves supporting the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the OECD anti-foreign bribery convention, among others external initiatives. He holds degrees in political science from the Univeristy of Nijmegen, and in economics from the University of Pittsburgh and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Barbara Bruns
Barbara Bruns is lead economist in the office of the Chief Economist, Human Development Network at the World Bank, where her core responsibilities include monitoring global progress on the education and health Millenium Development Goals. In this role, she has been a core team member for the World Bank/IMF Global Monitoring Report in both 2006 and 2005 and lead author of the chapters on human development progress. Prior to assuming her current position in March 2004, Barbara headed the Secretariat for the global Education for All Fast Track Initiative, which is managed by the World Bank. She is co-author of the book A Chance for Every Child: Achieving Universal Primary Education by 2015 (Bruns, Mingat, and Rakotomalala 2003), lead author of the education chapter of A Sourcebook for Poverty Reduction Strategies (World Bank, 2002), and a contributor to Opportunity Foregone: Education, Growth and Inequality in Brazil, with Nancy Birdsall and Richard Sabot (1999). Barbara has also served as Manager of the Poverty and Human Development Division of the World Bank Institute (1995-98), principal economist in the Education and Social Policy Department, senior economist in the Brazil Department, and country economist in the West Africa region. She is currently managing global research programs on the impact on student learning outcomes of education reforms aimed at promoting local accountability and on the impact of different types of early child development and pre-school programs on children’s overall development and performance in primary school. Barbara holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, and prior to joining the World Bank worked in the US Senate as an economic policy adviser to Adlai Stevenson III. Ariel Fiszbein
Ariel Fiszbein is Adviser to the Bank's Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President for Development Economics as well as to the Operational Policies and Country Services Vice-Presidency. His current focus of attention is the Bank's results agenda. He also coordinates the World Bank's Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) initiative. Since joining the World Bank in 1991 as Young Professional, he has been Country Economist for Colombia, Coordinator of the Poverty Reduction program at the WBI, and Country Sector Leader for Human Development for the Southern Cone countries in Latin America. Between 2003 -2005 he was Lead Economist in the Human Development Department in Latin America and the Caribbean, were he led a large program of analytical and strategy work. He has published extensively on issues of social policy. His most recent publications include, Citizens, Politicians and Providers (World Bank 2005), which reviews the Latin American experience with reforms in the delivery of social and infrastructure services, and “Learning and scaling up through evaluation” (with Coralie Gevers, in Blanca Moreno-Dodson (Ed.) Reducing Poverty on a Global Scale, World Bank, 2005). He has taught development economics and social policy at the Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires and was the secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) between 1998 and 2005. Halsey Rogers
Halsey Rogers is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group (Human Development and Public Services Team). His current research focuses on understanding the quality and determinants of service delivery, particularly through exploration of the incentives for and behavior of teachers, doctors, and other service providers. His past research and policy work has covered aid effectiveness and development approaches, human capital investment, trade policy, economic history of financial markets, and sources of entrepreneurship. In addition to publishing articles in leading academic journals, Rogers is the co-author (with Nicholas Stern and Jean-Jacques Dethier) of Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen (MIT Press, 2005), and he has also edited two other books. Since joining the Bank in 1996, he has also worked in the Office of the Chief Economist as an advisor to Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern, as well as with the World Bank Institute. Previously, he served as staff economist at the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors in Washington and at the Indonesian Ministry of Finance in Jakarta, and held positions at UC Berkeley and at the Korea Development Institute in Seoul. He holds an AB from Princeton University, an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. |
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