 Jean Fares joined SP as an economist in the Labor Markets team in February 2003. He is responsible for our work program on youth employment and child labor. Prior to joining the Bank, Jean spent the last two years as an assistant professor in the Economics Department at the American University of Beirut and four years working in the Research Department at the Bank of Canada (Ottawa). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universite de Montreal. Jean has done research in a number of areas of labor economics including bargaining models, wage determination and returns to education.
 Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, an Argentinian national, joined the Labor Markets team as a Labor Economist in April 2007. Previously, Maria Laura had been an Extended Term Consultant in the ECSHD for two years, where she worked on Labor Market Studies for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania and Serbia, led the Poverty Assessment for Romania and co-authored the chapter on labor markets and demographic transition for the flagship publication, "Red to Gray". Her operational experience includes participating in multi-sectoral HD lending operations and the Employment Promotion Project in Serbia. In addition, she has experience working in the LAC region as a consultant for the Poverty and Economic Policy sectors. Maria Laura holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University.
 Rita Almeida joined the World Bank in September 1999 where she has been actively involved conducting policy oriented research and on impact evaluations of labor market programs. She has done extensive work on the micro determinants of productivity growth in developing countries and on the functioning of labor markets. In particular, she has conducted work on FDI, on-the-job training, innovation and technology adoption and on the effects of labor market regulations. Her on going analytical work focuses on the role of labor regulations on efficiency and equity outcomes, enforcement of regulations and labor informality. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
 Kyung Woo Shim joined HDNSP in December 2006 as a staff exchange program with Korean Ministry of Labor. He served in the Ministry 21 years mostly in the employment and training area. During the time, he completed an MLHR, Master of Labor and Human Resources, at the Ohio State University and also worked in the ILO Asian-Pacific Regional Office as a vocational training expert for three years. He participated in the introduction of Employment Insurance Scheme in 1995, which incorporated vocational training and employment security activities into a coherent labor market system with unemployment insurance. Here he is mainly engaged in Skills Development issue.
 Friederike Uta Rother works as a Operations Officer in the Social Protection Unit at the World Bank. Within the Labor Market Team, her recent research has focused on youth employment issues and has contributed to establishing the World Bank’s youth employment inventory. She has designed a Distance Learning Course on Key Labor Market Issues in Africa, and is working on different training events of the unit, including the Labor Market Core Course. Currently, she is tasked with co-managing a multidonor trustfund project on:” Labor Markets, Job Creation, and Economic Growth: Scaling up Research, Capacity Building, and Action on the Ground,” which aims at applying the multi-sectoral approach of the WB's MILES framework to generate employment in the Bank's client countries. The project focuses on Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Prior to working at the World Bank, Ms. Rother was an officer in the Labor Market and Economic Policy Unit of the German Employers’ Association and an advisor with the German Development Corporation (GTZ). In these positions, she has worked and published on issues such as Investment Climate and Job Creation, Impact Evaluation of Employment Programs, Demographics, and Migration. She holds Masters’ Degrees in Public Policy from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Science Po) and the Free University of Berlin.
 Olga Susana Puerto joined the Labor Markets Team in 2005. Since then she has been working on youth employment with a particular emphasis on LAC and the OECD area. She has also worked on specific country studies on youth employment issues in Sierra Leone and Turkey. Her research interests focus on econometrics, skills development and economic policy. At the World Bank she has also worked on infrastructure and urban issues in SAR and LAC. Susana holds an M.A. in Economics from Georgetown University.
 Johanna Avato has been with the HDNSP unit since September 2007 and works on topics related to international migration and education. She is also in the process of completing her thesis for her Ph.D. in economics which focuses on the highly skilled labor migration and the European Union. Previously, she has been visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. She holds an M.A. in economics from the University of Tuebingen, Germany.
 Melvina Clarke joined the Bank in August 1993. She worked closely with the spouses of The World Bank Volunteer Services (WBVS) as a Bank Temp until she joined HDNSP in May 1997. She is currently supporting The Labor Markets Team. Ms. Clarke, now a US citizen is originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa. She is a former employee of Barclays Bank (SL) Ltd. with over 20 years work experience.
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