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Meet the Team
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 | Govindan (“Govind”) Nair, World Bank Lead Economist and PPPI Team Program Leader at the World Bank Institute, has over twenty years of worldwide experience spanning Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America in capital markets and private sector development -- including in areas of financial sector development, corporate restructuring, privatization, and utility regulation -- and in knowledge management and capacity building. His career has spanned operations, research, and capacity building/knowledge sharing at the World Bank Group and commercial banking in France and Malaysia with Banque Nationale de Paris. He has been a team leader in several World Bank projects as well as sector studies and was twice member of core teams of the World Development Report published annually by the World Bank. He has held adjunct faculty positions at universities in the USA and Australia where he taught applied microeconomics, international finance and management, and managerial economics for graduate students.. He holds advanced degrees in economics, finance, and public policy from Princeton University (USA) and Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris, France).
|  | Bernardo Weaver first joined the World Bank in 2004 and joined the PPPI Program of WBIFP in 2008. Bernardo has worked at the Insurance and Capital Markets groups at the World Bank, and at the Pensions, Finance and Infrastructure groups at the Inter-American Development Bank. Bernardo has authored many articles on the topic of asset-backed securities, insurance, entrepreneurship, rating agencies, and other financial sector issues. He has published papers in journals in many languages, and spoken in international events on topics of insurance and financial guarantees. Bernardo, a Brazilian national, has a law degree from Brazil and a Masters degree in Insurance Law and Regulation of Financial Services from the University Of Connecticut School Of Law. Bernardo is a native Portuguese speaker, and is also fluent in French, Spanish and English. |  | Carlos Cordova joined the World Bank in 2008 and he is working in the Finance and Infrastructure division of the World Bank Institute as a Program Assistant. During the past three years Carlos, a native speaker of Spanish and Portuguese, has been involved with the research, assessments and delivery of sustainable micro-enterprise solutions to impoverished villages in Central and South America through a student organized development program sponsored by UCLA. Mr. Cordova holds a dual BA in Economics and International Development from the University of California, Los Angeles (2008).
|  | Filip Drapak joined The World Bank since 2007 as Senior Private Sector Specialist. Filip has over 12 years of experience in economics, public policy, and finance. Filip has worked as assisting professor at Prague University of Economics, as a head of financial advisory services in Societe Generale Komercni banka and as assistent director in corporate finance of PricewaterhouseCoopers During the past six years, Filip was involved in the area of public-private partnerships (PPP) and was instrumental in the creation of PPP Centrum, under the Ministry of Finance to provide technical assistance and support to public entities engaged in public private partnerships. He introduced the Czech Republic's policy for public-private partnerships and was involved in training for the public sector as well as in the formulation of legislation for privatization and concessions. In 2004, he served as the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the PPP Centrum. |  | Junglim Hahm joined the World Bank in 2004 and currently is working as an Infrastructure and PPP specialist at WBI. Ms. Hahm is working for capacity building programs, extensively in Asia region, to assist the governments of developing countries with their efforts for establishing sound PPP framework. Before joining the Bank, Ms. Hahm worked at Korea PPP unit, PIMAC/PICKO for six years where she advised the central and local governments on PPP policy and projects. Her area of expertise and interests are institutional issues, procurement, infrastructure finance, and risk sharing. |  |
Nicole Bucyana joined the World Bank in 2008 and she is working in the Finance and Infrastructure division of the World Bank Institute as a Program Assistant. During the past two years Nicole, a native speaker of French interned in several place where she closely worked with the United Nations Development Program and the Ministry of Education in Niger, where she assisted women development programs in rural areas i.e women with Fistula programs. In Early 2008, she interned at the United Nations Credit Development Fund where she worked on Legal and Institutional systems for Local Governments for low income countries. Ms. Bucyana holds a BA in French literature and International relations from Wheaton College in Norton, MA (2008).
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| Pascal Dooh-Bill Pascal Dooh-Bill, — Legal and Institutional Specialist joined the PPPI program in 2005. He has over 15 years of experience dealing with the private as well as public sectors and involved in a wide range of operational projects. Experience includes design of institutional arrangements, drafting enabling legislation for PPPs and design of concession contracts for utilities. He has specialized in introducing performance contract for parastatals with clear commercial objectives. He carried out project and sector related tasks which included: Project design concept; Costing and financing arrangements; Key Monitoring Indicators, Institutional Arrangements and set-up, Operational Manual and flow of funds and other project related activities. He holds a joint degree LLM & Masters degree in International Relations from the Georgetown University Law school and School of Foreign Service and a graduate degree in Political Science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France. |  |
Patchareporn Talvanna joined the Bank in 2005 as a researcher for the PPPI team. She is heavily involved in capcity building in areas of infrastructure finance, infrastructure risk etc. Ms. Talvanna brings with her much diversity from her previous working experience in Thailand with; Merrill Lynch- Phatra as a Junior Analyst, and from the Ministry of Finance in Bangkok, Thailand as a Research Analyst and Project Assistant. Ms. Talvanna holds a dual BA in Economics and Political Science, with a concentration in International Political Economics, from the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor (2005). |  | Periklis Saragiotis joined the World Bank in 2002 and he is working in the Finance and Infrastructure division of the World Bank Institute as a Consultant in the areas of Economic Regulation and Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure (PPPI). Mr. Saragiotis has been working for the World Bank for four years. His previous departments were the Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) and the Transport Unit of ECA region (ECSIE). Before joining the World Bank, he had worked several years in Greece as a Logistics and Operations manager both for the public and the private sector. Mr. Saragiotis holds a BA in Economics from the University of Macedonia (1997) and a MBA from George Washington University with specialization in Logistics and Operations(2000). |  | Sung Hoon Park joined the World Bank in 2008 as a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist. He has over 11 years of experience in finance, law and public policy. During the past 4 years, Sung Hoon has been involved in public-private partnership for infrastructure issues in the Ministry of Planning and Budget in Seoul, South Korea, as the Senior Deputy Director of the PPPI Planning division. He has played a key role in improving the Korean PPPI Law, formulating and implementing the National Fiscal Management Plan, and promoting international cooperation with other countries and international organizations to share knowledge and experience in PPP. Sung Hoon holds a masters degree from Seoul National University in Political Science, and is also a member of the Korean Bar Association. | | | |
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