Dr. Mustaq Ahmed Economic Policy Advisor, Sectors and Global Partnership Branch Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Dr. Ahmed is an Economic Policy Advisor with the Sectors and Global Partnership Branch, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Before joining CIDA, he worked with the Canadian Department of Agriculture (AAFC).  Dr. Mushtaq specializes in international development and agricultural economics. His experiences include working as policy advisor and as a researcher in leadership positions, including working on a number of international capacity building initiatives. He worked with the CGIAR centers, the Commonwealth Secretariat (UK), and Ministries of Agriculture in Bangladesh and Guyana and as the Deputy Chairman of the Guyana Marketing Corporation. Dr. Ahmed holds a PhD from Cornell University.   Constance Bernard Sector Director, Sustainable Development, South Asia World Bank Constance Bernard is the Director for Sustainable Development in the South Asia region. Prior to this assignment she was Director for Rural Development in South Asia. Her career at the World Bank spans 32 years and includes assignments in Latin America, Europe and Central Asia, and Africa, as well as in the Quality Assurance Group. Her main professional interests include public private partnerships, particularly as a route to ensuring that the poor are engaged in economic development. Miss Bernard holds degrees from Harvard and from George Washington University.    Adolfo Brizzi Sector Manager, Agriculture and Rural Development, South Asia Region World Bank Adolfo Brizzi is Sector Manager, Agriculture and Rural Development, for the South Asia Region. He has worked in the World Bank for the last 18 years and before that in FAO for 8 years. He currently manages the agriculture and rural development program for South Asia and has previously worked in Latin America and Africa. He has been involved in a range of advisory and investment-related activities covering agriculture, natural resources management, rural livelihoods, community driven development, rural finance, water and irrigation, forestry, bio-diversity and land issues. He has a Master in Agriculture Economics and a Master in Environmental Sciences.    Dr. John W. Bruce Land and Development Solutions International John W. Bruce has worked on land policy and law in developing countries for forty years, primarily in Africa and Asia. He began work on land tenure in the late 1960s as a Peace Corps legal advisor to the Ministry of Land Reform in Ethiopia and later research and teaching in both Ethiopia and Sudan. In 1980 he joined the staff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Land Tenure Center, where he served first as African Program Coordinator, and then as Director. In 1996, he joined the World Bank as Senior Counsel (Land Law) and Land Tenure Specialist. He retired from the World Bank in 2006 and now heads a consulting firm, Land and Development Solutions International, based in Vienna, VA. He has published extensively on land policy and law.    Florence Cassassuce (2006 Global Development Marketplace winner) Project Coordinator Niparajá AC (La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico) Florence Cassassuce and her team in Niparajá are the inventors of the UV Bucket, a water purification system for rural communities of the developing world. Niparajá won the DM2006 grant at the World Bank and has since then worked in the ranches of Baja California Sur to provide clean water to 6,000 families or 75 percent of the rural population of the state. Niparajá is now working with the Mexican Government to develop a program called "100% clean water for Mexico" to provide clean water to 5 millions in the next 5 years, converting Mexico in a model of success in reaching the UN Millennium Goals on the topic of access to clean water. Florence has a Masters of Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and was one of the founders of the Engineers-without-Frontiers chapters there.    Julius E. Coles President Africare Julius E. Coles has been the President of Africare since 2002. Before assuming this position, he was the Director of Morehouse College’s Andrew Young Center for International Affairs from 1997 - 2002. He served as the Director of Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center from 1994 - 1997. He spent most of his career in the Foreign Service with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from which he retired in 1994 with the rank of Career Minister. He has received numerous awards including the Distinguished Career Service Award (1995), the Presidential Meritorious Service Award (1983-1986), and was decorated by President Abdou Diouf of Senegal as Commander in the Order of Lion (1994).   Luis Constantino Sector Manager, Agriculture and Rural Development, Middle East and North Africa World Bank Luis Constantino is a Sector Manager for Agriculture and Rural Development and Environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MNA) region. He holds a PhD in Natural Resource Economics from Canada and before joining the Bank worked in North America, Europe, Africa and East Asia, where he was stationed in Indonesia.  Since joining the Bank he worked in Latin America and South Asia, where he was stationed in Delhi for 3 years, before joining the MNA region as Sector Manager. He has worked in many areas within Agriculture and Rural Development, including management of natural resources, community driven development, rural institutions, agriculture markets and trade, land administration, and worked both with projects and studies and policy analysis.  Philippe Dongier Sector Manager, Global Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) World Bank Philippe Dongier is Sector Manager at the Global ICT Department of the World Bank Group, leading a team of more than 50 staff members. He has management responsibility for all World Bank policy and operational engagements in the telecom and ICT sectors globally, assisting close to 80 countries with telecom policy and regulatory reforms, and with the design and financing of development programs to address infrastructure market gaps and to mainstream the use of ICT as an enabler of development across sectors.   Prior to assuming this function, Mr. Dongier managed World Bank's support to Afghanistan reconstruction, and led a corporate initiative on strengthening the Bank's organizational effectiveness.  He also played a range of leadership roles in the infrastructure and sustainable development sectors, and worked in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Dongier worked five years with McKinsey & Company in Canada, the US, Asia and Europe, advising companies and governments on issues of strategy and organizational reform, including in the telecom and IT industries. Earlier, he was based in Nepal for six years where he worked for the Canadian Center for International Cooperation (CECI) in the fields of community infrastructure and micro-finance. He has an MBA from INSEAD and a degree in Economics from McGill University.
 William Ehlers Team Leader Global Environment Facility (GEF) William Ehlers is the Team Leader for External Relations of the Global Environment Facility and has been in this position for one year. William is a Uruguayan Foreign Service officer of 22 years who has represented his country on political, economic and environmental issues in the United Nations System. He was also deputy representative to the World Trade Organization for 6 years and then served as chief trade negotiator in the context of MERCOSUR and Latin American economic integration. Over the last 4 years before joining the GEF, he was Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uruguay and Ambassador of Uruguay to India. He holds a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.   Warren Evans Director, Environment Department World Bank Warren Evans is the Director of the Environment Department at the World Bank. His main responsibilities include overseeing the implementation of World Bank’s environment strategy. Before joining the World Bank in 2003, Warren held technical and managerial positions at the Asian Development Bank, including Director for the Environment and Social Safeguards Division. He has also worked on environmental issues in developing countries included serving as advisor to the Thai National Environment Board and as Managing Director of an international environmental consulting firm based in Asia. He holds a Masters degree in Environmental Health Engineering from the University of Kansas.  F through K L through Z
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