The 2008 Global Monitoring Report was authored by a team led by Zia Qureshi, Sr Adviser with the World Bank's Development Economics Vice Presidency, under the guidance of the Acting Chief Economist, Alan Gelb. Zia Qureshi
Zia Qureshi, currently Senior Adviser in the Office of the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, has held leadership positions at the Bank in the past twenty years on both global economic issues and development policy at the country level. Mr. Qureshi has led Bank teams on several flagship publications on global issues, most recently the Global Monitoring Report 2008 that provides an integrated assessment of the agenda for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and meeting the challenge of climate change and environmental sustainability. His country work has spanned a range of emerging market and developing countries in most regions of the world. Prior to joining the Bank Mr. Qureshi worked at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a D.Phil. in economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Richard Harmsen
Richard Harmsen is Deputy Division Chief in the Development Issues Division of the IMF’s Policy Development and Review Department. His current responsibilities include the coordination of the IMF contributions to the Global Monitoring Report (he was the lead author of Chapter 1), the preparation of background documentation for the Development Committee meetings, and relations with trade unions. His previous assignments in the IMF included macroeconomic country work in Eastern Europe and Africa, trade policy analysis, and external debt issues (including Paris Club debt negotiations). Before joining the IMF, Mr. Harmsen was an official in the Ministry of Finance of The Netherlands, with responsibilities in the areas of financial market regulation, monetary policy, and debt policy.
Alexei Kireyev
Alexei Kireyev is a Senior Economist, Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund. His current responsibilities include review of IMF policy advice, financing, and technical assistance to low-income countries, preparation in cross-country studies, and providing advice on macroeconomic policies to countries with IMF-supported programs. He also served as IMF representative to the World Trade Organization. Before his IMF career, he was an economic advisor to President Gorbachev and taught international economics in Russia and the United States. Dr. Kireyev has researched and published extensively on international economics, applied macroeconomics, and economic problems of low-income countries. His degrees include a MA in Economics from the George Washington University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Maureen Lewis
Maureen Lewis is Adviser, Human Development at the World Bank. Much of her research, publications and policy work focus on the economics of health and education. She was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development for two years and prior to that managed a unit in the World Bank dedicated to economic policy and human development research and programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Before joining the World Bank, she established and directed the International Health and Demographic Policy Unit at the Urban Institute. She has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals on a range of topics in the social sectors particularly on the issues of efficiency in health care delivery. She recently published two books on education Inexcusable Absence and Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World. She earned her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University.
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 2008 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. Stefano Curto
Stefano Curto currently works on international policy issues relevant to a set of external partners and shareholders, including APEC, ASEM, the Commonwealth, the OECD-DAC, the IMF, UN, and G-24. His areas of interest and research include the international financial architecture agenda and coherence, coordination, and cooperation among multilateral organizations and bilateral donors, including global issues of aid financing and effectiveness. He previously worked at European Central Bank (ECB) and Overseas Development Institute (ODI) on macroeconomic and financial issues in emerging markets. He holds degrees in international economics from the University of Rome, University of Glasgow and the Kiel Institute of World Economics. Muthukumara Mani
Muthukumara Mani is a Senior Environmental Economist in Policy and Economics team of the World Bank’s Environment Department. Dr. Mani leads the World Bank's work on assessing environmental implications of policy reforms. His work also focuses on country environmental assessments, natural resources management, environmental institutions and governance, climate change and adaptation and trade and climate change issues. His research and analytic work on industrial pollution, trade and environment and environmental governance has appeared in professional economic journals. He has also co-authored several policy research working papers for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Prior to joining this position, he was an Economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund, where he was responsible for analyzing environmental implications of macroeconomic policies and programs and in integrating environmental considerations broadly in the country programs. He has Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Homi Kharas
Homi Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He is a member of the Working Group for the Commission on Growth and Development, chaired by Michael Spence. Previously, Homi served as Chief Economist for the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific region, and as Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for the Bank’s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal issues, debt, trade, governance and financial markets. In 1990-91, he was a Senior Partner with Jeff Sachs and Associates, advising governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on transition. His research interests are now focused on global trends, East Asian growth and development, and international aid for the poorest countries. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Bernard Hoekman
Bernard Hoekman, a Senior Advisor in the Development Research Group of the World Bank, and manages the Bank’s research program on trade and international integration. Prior positions include managing the trade capacity building program of the World Bank Institute and working as a trade economist in the Middle East/North Africa and Europe and Central Asia regions of the World Bank. His research focuses on the functioning of the multilateral trading system, trade in services, preferential trade agreements and channels of international technology diffusion. Between 1988 and 1993 he worked as a research economist in the GATT Secretariat in Geneva. He is a graduate of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan and is a Research Fellow of the London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research. Alessandro Nicita
Alessandro Nicita is an economist in the Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank. His research focuses on issues related to international trade and development. His work has included the measurement of the effects of trade policies, the analysis of policies improving market access for developing countries, as well as the effect of trade policies on poverty and inequality. He has authored several publications in the filed of international trade and economic development and collaborated in a number of World Bank reports. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université de Genève and a Master in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan.
Kirk Hamilton
Kirk Hamilton is Lead Environmental Economist and Team Leader, Policy and Economics, Environment Department, The World Bank, where his current projects include analytical work on the links between poverty and environment, ‘greening’ the national accounts, and the analysis of public expenditures on the environment. Previously senior research fellow at the UK Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, Dr. Hamilton has researched and published extensively on green national accounts and indicators of sustainable development. He has also served as Assistant Director of National Accounts for the government of Canada, where his responsibilities included developing an environmental national accounting program. His degrees include a Ph.D. in Economics and MSc in Resource and Environmental Economics from University College London, as well as a BSc (Eng.) from Queen's University at Kingston. Giovanni Ruta
Giovanni Ruta currently works on environmental policy, environmental valuation, green accounting and indicators in the Environment Department of the World Bank. Over the past 3 years he has participated in the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG indicators, providing inputs to the Environment sub-group. He previously worked at the World Bank Institute where he organized capacity building activities on environmental economics. He joined the Bank after obtaining an MSc degree in 'Environmental and Natural Resource Economics' from University College London (UK). Maureen Cropper
Maureen Cropper is a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, and a former Lead Economist at the World Bank. Dr. Cropper is past president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and has served on the USEPA Science Advisory Board since 1994. Her research has focused on valuing environmental amenities (especially environmental health effects), on the discounting of future health benefits, and on the tradeoffs implicit in environmental regulations. Her recent research has focused on the externalities associated with motorization and on the interaction between residential location, land use and travel demand. Dr. Cropper received a B.A. in Economics from Bryn Mawr College (summa cum laude, 1969) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University (1973). Jamus Lim
Jamus Lim is currently an economist at the World Bank. He was educated at the University of California, the London School of Economics, and the University of Southern Queensland, where he obtained his doctorate, masters, and honors degrees, respectively. He has also had stints in education (Centre College), at a think tank (the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), and in investment banking (the former J.P. Morgan). His areas of research expertise (and interest) lie at the intersection of international economics and political economy, although he has also worked on various aspects of international development, comparative political economy, and information and communications technology. He has published more than a dozen academic articles in both refereed journals and conference volumes, together with a host of op-ed articles for the general public. Linda Lee
Linda Lee is a Junior Professional Associate in the Development Economics Vice Presidency, where she researches aid effectiveness and works on the core team that produced the 2008 Global Monitoring Report. Prior to joining the Bank in 2007, Linda studied at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she completed her degree in Master of Public Administration in International Development. She has worked with the United Nations Development Program’s Sub-Regional Resource Facility in Trinidad and Tobago. She was also a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines before her graduate studies. In 2002, Linda received her Bachelor’s degree in economics, with honors, from Princeton University. Back to top |
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