WDR 2000/2001: Organization and Staff

The intensive phase of Report writing by the Core Team started on July 1, 1999.

During July 1998 to June 1999, members of the team continued in their normal jobs, but early announcement of the team members allowed, among other things, participation in the consultation processes which were launched in the Fall of 1998.

The Core Team

Monica Das Gupta

• Social Scientist, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank
• Some Past Positions: Senior Fellow, Harvard University Centre for Population and Development Studies; Associate Director, National Council for Applied Economic Reseacrh, New Delhi.
• Nationality: Indian
• Languages: English, French, Bengali ,Hindi
• email: mdasgupta@worldbank.org

Christiaan Grootaert

• Senior Economist, Social Development anchor unit, The World Bank.
• Some Past Positions: Senior Economist, Social Dimensions of Adjustment Unit and Economist, Living Standards Measurement Study, World Bank.
• Nationality: Belgian
• Languages: English, French, Flemish.

Ravi Kanbur, former Director
Ravi Kanbur's decision to leave the WDR team 

• T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, Cornell University
• Some Past Positions: Principal Adviser, Chief Economist for Africa, Resident Representative in Ghana, World Bank; Professor of Economics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
• Nationality: British
• Languages: English, Hindi.
• email: sk145@cornell.edu
• Click here to read his paper on Income Distribution and Development.

Victoria Kwakwa

• Present Position: Senior Economist, East Asia and Pacific Region. World Bank.
• Some Past Positions: Economist and Senior Economist, Africa Region, World Bank.
• Nationality: Ghanaian
• Languages: English, French, Twi
• email: vkwakwa@worldbank.org

Nora Lustig, Director

• Present Position: Senior Advisor and Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Advisory Unit, Inter-American Development Bank, and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
• Some Past Positions: Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Professor of Economics, El Colegio de Mexico
• Nationality: Mexican, Argentinean
• Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese
• email: noral@iadb.org

Christina Malmberg Calvo

• Transport Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank.
• Some Past Positions: Transport Specialist, Africa Region, World Bank; Economist, International Labor Organization, Tanzania.
• Nationality: Swedish.
• Languages: English, Swedish, Spanish, French, Swahili.
• email: cmalmbergcalvo@worldbank.org

Kevin Morrison

• Research Analyst, Overseas Development Council.
• Some Past Positions: Assistant to the Senior Vice President, Overseas Development Council; International Project Assistant, The Coca-Cola Company.
• Nationality: American.
• Languages: English.
• Email: morrison@odc.org

Alice Sindzingre

• Charge de recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris; Associate Member, CEAN (Centre d’Etude d’Afrique Noire), Bordeaux; Associate Member, DIAL (Developpement et Insertion Internationale).
• Some Past Positions: Member, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Paris.
• Nationality: French
• Languages: French, English
• email: asindzin@worldnet.fr

Zainal Aznam Yusof

• Deputy Director-General, Institute for Strategic International Studies, Malaysia.
• Some Past Positions: Adviser, Central Bank of Malaysia; Director of Income Distribution Section, Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia.
• Nationality: Malaysian
• Languages: English, Malay.
• email: zaznam@isis.po.my

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