Master's and Doctorate in Economics; Master's in International Affairs. Formerly with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris. Since 1988, with the World Bank - currently Managing Director of Operations, former Senior Country Economist, Côte d'Ivoire and Country Economist, Guatemala; 1996-2001, Senior Manager, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, the largest and most comprehensive debt relief program for poor countries; 2002-07, Country Director, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay; 2007-09, Country Director, Colombia and Mexico; 2009-13, Vice-President for Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships; since Feb. 2013, Regional Vice-President, East Asia and Pacific; oversees a portfolio of over US$ 30 billion in loans, grants, credits and trust funds, coordinating and supervising the activities of more than 1,000 staff; leads strategy in the region, which supports countries by addressing natural disasters; poverty and equality; infrastructure and urbanization; and making governments work for people.
Vaccinating the world against COVID-19 should be a top development priority. We must keep reminding ourselves of the reason for ensuring mass vaccination of the entire world: no one is sa...
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens already fragile social and economic systems and could potentially impact the lives of up to 2 billion people. Based on estimates by the World Bank, it woul...
L’ampleur des déplacements forcés de population dans le monde constitue une crise sans précédent depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Selon les derniers chiffres annuels de l’Agence des Nat...
Il y a aujourd'hui dans le monde davantage de réfugiés qu'à la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Près de 26 millions de personnes ont été déplacées de force et ont dû fuir leur pays pou...
Comment aider les pays les plus pauvres à lutter contre le changement climatique ? Le défi est de taille. À l’échelle de la planète, ces trois dernières années ont été les plus chaudes ja...
Recientemente, Naciones Unidas declaró la hambruna en ciertas zonas de Sudán del Sur (la primera en el mundo desde 2011) y generó alarma mundial: al menos 100 000 personas están en riesgo...
Hace poco fui testigo de la creación de una gran obra de arte. En un mural en el que se muestra la historia de la Asociación Internacional de Fomento (AIF), el fondo del Banco Mundial par...
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, state counselor of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize winner, told representatives from governments rich and poor at a recent meeting in Myanmar that reducing poverty and...
Nearly 50 years ago, books such as Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into The Poverty Of Nations, by the Swedish economist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal, offered a dire prediction of famine and ...
