     
The Governance and Anti-Corruption team of the World Bank Institute is made up of the following individuals (listed by management, then in alphabetical order by surname): 
| Daniel Kaufmann
Director, WBI Global Governance Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries on governance and development, Mr. Kaufmann, with his team, has pioneered new approaches to analyze country governance as well as survey methodologies and indicators for good governance and anti-corruption programs around the world. He heads the work on Global Governance and Anti-Corruption, and previously held positions at the World Bank which include managing a team on Finance, Regulation and Governance, heading capacity building for Latin America, and also serving as Lead Economist both in economies in transition as well as in the Bank's research department. In the early nineties, he was the first Chief of Mission of the World Bank to Ukraine, and then he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University prior to resuming his carreer at the World Bank. His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in leading journals. Mr. Kaufmann is also frequent keynote speaker on governance and development issues in major fora; he is a guest expert in major media programs, and his work is frequently featured in international media and policy circles. A Chilean national, Daniel Kaufmann received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard, and a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. | 
| Roumeen Islam
Manager, WBI Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Prior to joining WBI, Roumeen Islam was Director of the World Bank's World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets, leading a large multidisciplinary team of experts. The WDR is the Bank's annual flagship publication. From 1998 to 2000 she was advisor to the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President in the Bank's Development Economics group where she conducted reviews of country strategies, lending operations, and economic policies and supported initiatives undertaken by the Chief Economist. Between 1996 and 198 Ms. Islam was senior economist and program team leader for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. From 1993 to 1996 she served as a country economist for Morocco, and from 1991-1993 she served as a macroeconomist for Algeria and Morocco. Her work has covered a broad set of topics during this time ranging on public expenditure rationalization, fiscal stability, growth strategies, trade and exchange rate issues, sovereign debt rationalization, financial sector reform and private sector development.. Roumeen Islam joined the World Bank in 1990 through the Young Professionals Program. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, a Masters in Public Affairs (special field Economics and Public Policy) from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.
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| Anwar M. Shah
Lead Public Sector Management Specialist and Program Leader for Public Sector Governance Dr. Anwar Shah is a fellow of the Institute of Public Economics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has previously served the Ministry of Finance, Government of Canada and Government of Alberta, Canada and held responsibilities for tax policy, municipal and local finances, fiscal transfers, federal-provincial and provincial-local fiscal relations. He also served USAID as Population and Health Economist; Pakistan Institute of Delopment Economics as a macroeconomist; the UN. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a Lead author and the 1992 World Development Report on Environment as a contributing author on global environment. Anwar Shah has published several books and numerous articles in leading economic and policy journals on governance, fiscal reform, fiscal federalism, local government organization and finance and global environment. He serves as a referee and a member of the editorial advisory boards for leading economic journals.
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| Edouard Al-Dahdah
Operations Officer Edouard Al-Dahdah has been working at the World Bank since 2001, first in the Middle East and North Africa Vice-Presidency, then at the World Bank Institute starting in 2004. He is one of the core authors of the award-winning World Bank report on "Better Governance for Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Enhancing Inclusiveness and Accountability", published in 2003, and is currently working on producing a companion volume. Edouard is currently working on governance and anticorruption technical assistance projects in Kuwait, Yemen, Algeria and Morocco. His fields of expertise include the political economy of institutional reforms and quantitative economic history. A Lebanese national, he did his graduate work at the University of Chicago and Georgetown University, and his undergraduate work at the American University of Beirut. |  | Diane Leslie Billups
Program Assistant Diane Leslie Billups coordinates the preparation, organization and follow-up to the different activities of the team and oversees the maintanence of the governance and anti-corruption website. She joined the Bank in 1993. Diane Billups is from Puerto Rico and holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Puerto Rico.
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| Susana Carrillo
Consultant Susana Carrillo has been working for a number of years in the development field. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as Chief of Program on poverty and governance issues in The Gambia with overall responsibility for West Africa; in Guatemala as a Chief of Program on governance and human rights issues and as a Strategic Operations Specialist in UNDP HQ. She joined the WBI Global Governance Program in 2004 and works providing technical assistance on governance and anti-corruption issues in Africa. Her work includes frontier areas in the governance agenda , such as accountability and oversight and political economy of reform. Susana obtained a Global Executive Masters from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; a Masters in Development Studies from the University of Geneva and has post graduate studies in Economics from Birmingham University. She is a Peruvian national and resident of Brazil. |  | Elizabeth Crespo
Program Assistant Elizabeth Crespo coordiates the prepation, organization follow-up to the different activities of the team and oversees the maintenance of the governance and anti-corruption web site. Elizabeth Crespo joined the Bank in 1993. She is from Venezuela.
|  | K. Migara O. De Silva
Economist Migara De Silva joined the Bank in 1995 and has worked in DECVP and OED before joining WBI. He has worked in a number of WBI programs and has build a comprehensive training program on intergovernmental fiscal relations in Russia to train central and regional/local government officials in all of the 7 Regions (Okrugs) in Russia. He is also the task manager in the joint programs on Central Asia and the Caucuses which were launched under Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (FDI) by WBI, UNDP (Bratislava) and the Local Government Initiative (LGI) of the Soros Foundation in Budapest. Prior to becoming a member of the public sector governance team, Migara has worked extensively and later co-managed a work program (called "Brain Trust" Program) funded by the Government of Japan through WBI. In addition, he has worked on public sector reform and has published papers on the impact of resource booms on growth, institutions and economic growth He has graduate degrees from the former Soviet Union and Masters and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
|  | Maria González de Asis
Senior Public Sector Specialist Employed by the World Bank since 1997, Maria González de Asis has concentrated on public sector reform. She has managed anti-corruption programs in the field, disseminating emerging best practice in governance and anti-corruption worldwide at the National and Municipal level and most recently, managing the Legal and Judicial Reform Learning Programs and representing the WBI in the area of Judicial Reform. Before joining the World Bank, Ms. González de Asis worked at Transparency International in Washington, Berlin and Peru, and for the Spanish Lawyer Firm "Abogados Asociados" dealing with political anticorruption cases. Her publications include: International Corruption (Claves 1999), Judicial Reform and Corruption (La Revista 1997), La Burocracia Española (Revista de Derecho 1996), La corrupción Judicial (Gestion y Análisis de Políticas Publicas 2001) and Judicial Reform and Rule of Law (Georgetown 2003). Maria González de Asis has a Master's degree in Law from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, completed her PhD courses in Law, and also holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University.
|  | Ronald MacLean-Abaroa
Lead Public Sector Management Specialist Regarded as a leading governance expert and practitioner, Ronald MacLean-Abaroa comes from the world of politics and public service. He was the first democratically elected mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, and served four terms. Appointed the youngest cabinet minister at age 29, he has held five cabinet positions: planning, foreign affairs, information, finance, and sustained development, under three different presidents. He ran for president of Bolivia in 2002. Ronald MacLean-Abaroa was a Senior Governance Researcher, and lectured at Harvard University where he received his Masters in Public Administration, and his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maryland. He authored several articles, professional papers, case studies, and books, and coauthored with Robert Klitgaard and Linsey Parris Corrupt Cities: A practical Guide to Cure and Prevention (2000) edited already in five languages. |  | Massimo Mastruzzi
Research Analyst Massimo Mastruzzi joined the World Bank Institute in 2000 and joined Global Programs in 2002. While at the World Bank, Mr. Mastruzzi's work has focused on statistical and econometric analysis, with particular interest on issues related to governance, economic development and international finance. Recent publications include "Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance" with Daniel Kaufmann and Frannie Leautier (2005), and "Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006" with Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay (2007). He received a Master in Economics and a Master in European Studies from Georgetown University. |  | Djordjija Petkoski
Lead Enterprise Structuring Specialist and Head of Private Sector Development team at the WBI Since joining the Bank in 1992, Mr. Petkoski has worked in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the early 1990s and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979-80. He is author or co-author of 15 books and over 120 articles. He has delivered lectures at leading universities and international organizations around the world. Mr. Petkoski received MPA at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Zagreb, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.
|  | Frederick C. Stapenhurst
Senior Public Sector Management Specialist Rick Stapenhurst joined the World Bank in 1996, and has concentrated on issues in accountability and integrity, political risk analysis, investment decision making, government policy development and implementation, and institutional analysis and assessment. He has worked throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as having spent time in the Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe. His publications include Political Risk Around the North Atlantic (Macmillan Press/St. Martin's 1993), Industrial Democracy Today (McGraw Hill-Ryerson 1979), and numerous articles in the business and academic press. A Canadian citizen, Mr. Stapenhurst completed his doctorate of business administration in 1989 at the International Graduate School, and has Masters degrees in Business Administration and Development Studies. Before coming to the World Bank, Mr. Stapenhurst was the Director of Multilateral Development Banks at the Canadian International Development Agency and an Adjunct Professor for International Marketing at the University of Ottawa and at McGill University. |  | Boris Weber
Consultant Boris Weber works on WBI's global governance program and, as part of the diagnostics team, on in-country surveys assessing the quality and integrity of public services. Previous assignments in WBI’s capacity development division and the OECD-directorate for public governance allowed him to work on a broad range of issues from citizen’s participation to human resources aspects of public management. He has authored studies on senior staffing and the political/administrative interface, on political accountability and the role of the legislature and on the democratic deficit of the European Union. He has a particular interest in the demand side of governance and the role of the media. In part this is due to his prior career in journalism. Boris has worked for leading print, radio and TV media and he has received journalistic awards in the USA and Germany. As a Chief Editor in Charge he has been responsible for running a major current affairs program on national German TV for over eight years. Boris is an Ancien Elève of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration where he has been trained in a French-German government program for young executives. He has earned a post-graduate Master’s degree in international public governance from the Sorbonne University and the University of Potsdam in cooperation with Sciences-Po, Paris, and the Humboldt University, Berlin; and he has earned a Master’s of law (LL.M) from the Sorbonne and the University of Cologne. |
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