 | Specialization: Mr. Braga specializes in debt relief and debt management, fiscal sustainability, growth diagnostics, international trade, intellectual property rights, trade in services, multilateral trade negotiations and the WTO. Languages:
Portuguese, English, Spanish | Related Links:
• Trade • Economic Policy and Debt |
Carlos Alberto Primo Braga, a Brazilian national, is currently Director, Economic Policy and Debt in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM). His main roles are to: (1) provide integrated support to country programs in the areas of debt, macro-policy and shared and sustainable growth; (2) provide low-income countries with better growth diagnostics, as well as debt management policy advice; and (3) provide institutional guidance in the areas of fiscal policy, macroeconomic management, and overall economic policy, acting as the Chairman of the Economic Policy Sector Board of the World Bank. Before assuming this position on January 10, 2008, he was Senior Adviser of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Vice-Presidency, and Head, International Policy and Partnerships Group, anchoring strategic relationships with key shareholder groupings (e.g., G7/8, G20, G24, APEC, ASEM) and the dialogue between the World Bank and partners such as the IMF, OECD, and the Commonwealth Secretariat, among others. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Senior Adviser of the International Trade Department, The World Bank. Based in Geneva, he was responsible for covering international trade issues of relevance to developing countries vis-à-vis European-based institutions, including the OECD, the European Commission, UNCTAD and the WTO. Previously, he was the Senior Manager of the Informatics Program at the Information Solutions Group of the World Bank. He was also the director of the Development Gateway initiative -- a web-based initiative for sharing information on development-related topics. From 1997 to 2001, he was the Manager of infoDev (the Information for Development Program), a multi-donor grant facility administered by the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department, The World Bank. In that capacity, he was responsible for a portfolio of more than 200 innovative projects funded by infoDev grants worldwide. He was also in charge of the Bank's Y2K outreach activities in the period 1998-2000. He joined the World Bank Group in 1991, as an economist in the International Trade Division of the Bank's International Economics Department. From 1991 to 1994, he was responsible for research and projects focusing on trade in services, intellectual property rights, regional integration agreements, and trade and the environment. In 1995, he moved to the Industry & Energy Department as a Senior Economist. Prior to joining the Bank, he served as a consultant to the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1990. He was a Fulbright Scholar (1988/89) at the Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University and taught there as a visiting professor (1988-98). He was an assistant professor of economics, University of São Paulo and Senior Researcher at FIPE, São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1980s. He was also a lecturer on the economics of intellectual property rights at the World Trade Institute, University of Berne, Switzerland in the 1990s. Dr. Braga received a degree in Mechanical Engineering (1976) from the Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (Brazil), and an MSc (1980) in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He holds a PhD (1984) in Economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. To reach this expert, please contact the World Bank's Media Division. Updated September 17, 2008 |
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