Specialization: Africa, China, Russia and Former Soviet Union, the Balkans, trade, FDI, regional integration, competition policy, enterprise development

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Harry Broadman he has been a key architect of the Bank's new corporate strategy in Africa and of a new fund--the Africa Catalytic Growth Fund--that facilitates innovative investments on the continent. In the Fall of 2006, the Bank is publishing his new book, Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier. Previously he served as the Bank’s Lead Economist for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union and also as the Bank’s International Trade Policy Coordinator for that region. In early 2006, the Bank published his book, From Disintegration to Reintegration: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in International Trade.  Earlier, Broadman managed the Bank’s structural adjustment operations in the Russian Federation —prior to, during, and after that country’s economic crisis in the late 1990s and early 2000s—as well as managed major operations in the Balkans and Central Asia.   Previously, he led the Bank’s work in China on state owned enterprise reform, WTO accession, competition policy and corporate governance reform.  Prior to joining the World Bank in 1993, Broadman served in the U.S. White House, first as Chief of Staff and Senior Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and then as Assistant United States Trade Representative, where he was in charge of negotiating key portions of the Uruguay Round that led to the creation of the WTO, and of the NAFTA.  Earlier, he was an Economic Consultant at the Rand Corporation; Assistant Director at Resources for the Future, Inc.; on the faculties of Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities; a Fellow at the Brookings Institution; and Chief Economist of the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Broadman received his undergraduate education at Brown University and a doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan. 

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