Program of Seminars Schedule

	Annual Meetings Boards of Governors World Bank Group International Monetary Fund WASHINGTON, D.C.	1999 Annual Meetings Home Bank Home Fund Home

Tuesday, September 28, 1999

2:00-3:30 The New Global Education Industry
Miguel A. Gómez Barnola is Director of the Centro de Planeación Educativa, Mexico. He was previously Director of Special Projects, and significantly contributed to the conceptual genesis of Proyecto Educación, a project designed to finance, build, and operate schools and universities in Mexico and Latin America.
C.N. (Madhu) Madhusudan is President of Strategic Alliances of the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), a global software and training services company with global headquarters in New Delhi and US headquarters in Atlanta. As President, he spearheads NIIT's new alliance initiatives aimed at accelerating NIIT's growth. His current interests are mergers & acquisitions, e-commerce, and Internet-enabled applications and training systems.
Michael T. Moe is Director of Global Growth Stock Research and a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch. In this capacity, Mr. Moe heads the firm's education and training group that provides fundamental research for education companies, such as Apollo Group, Sylvan Learning Systems, and Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Moe was a Senior Managing Director and Director of Growth Stock Strategy at NationsBank Montgomery Securities. Mr. Moe also worked at Lehman Brothers, where he authored the first investment white paper on the emerging education and training industry, The Dawn of the Age of Knowledge.
Peter L. Woicke is Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. He was Chairman of J.P. Morgan Securities Asia and co-managed the global markets area of J.P. Morgan. As a member of J.P Morgan's management group, he worked in the brokerage department, the custody department, and the company's activities in Latin America. Mr. Woicke was closely involved with energy financing in the North Sea, Asia and Australia.

2:00-3:30 Project Finance in the Post-Crisis World
Eugene W. Goodwillie, Jr. is a partner in the law firm of White & Case. He has significant experience in foreign investment projects, international and domestic natural resource project financing, international joint venture transactions and domestic and international securities transactions. Mr. Goodwillie was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and a cum laude graduate of Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1967.
Alexander Kloosterman is Managing Director of ABN AMRO, responsible for Global Structured Finance (Project Finance and Advisory, Credit Structuring and Syndication, and Financial Engineering). He joined the ABN AMRO organization in 1983, and has served in a variety of management positions, both in the United States and abroad, including President (ad interim) of ABN AMRO Bank Brazil from 1992 until 1994.
David Scholey, CBE is Senior Advisor in Warburg Dillon Read in the United Kingdom and former Executive Chairman of the S. G. Warburg Group. He is Chairman of the Banking Advisory Group of the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.
Eric Siegel is Executive Vice President of the Export Development Corporation (EDC), Canada, responsible for Medium- and Long-Term Financial Services. He joined EDC in 1979 and served in a variety of financing positions. In December 1988 he moved to Medium-Term Insurance and July 1995 was promoted to Senior Vice-President. In 1997 he assumed the title of Executive Vice-President.

2:00-3:30 Labor Standards: Complementing Public Standards with Market-Driven Initiatives *
Janelle M. Diller is a Legal Officer within the Office of the Legal Adviser of the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland. Her publications have focussed on social and legal aspects of employment, investment and trade practices, including the role of non-state actors, and on the relationships among human rights, labor standards, development, peace-making, and displacement. Ms. Diller graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center and the Graduate School of Syracuse University in New York.
Charles Sabel is Professor of Law and Social Sciences at Columbia University, New York. Previously he was Professor of Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published extensively on issues dealing with economic and social organization. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Norma Samaniego is Director of Santa Fé Consultores, a consulting company on economic issues linked with labor matters. She has previously served as Secretary of Auditing and Administrative Development under Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. Ms. Samaniego was Deputy Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare from 1991 to 1994. Under this position she headed the Mexican delegation that negotiated the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation.
Ingrid Schullström is the Quality and Environmental Manager for Hennes & Mauritz. Her key task in this position has been to develop the company's Code of Conduct and implement it internally and externally. She is also responsible for organizing Hennes & Mauritz 's internal monitoring system. Ms. Schullström has worked for Hennes & Mauritz since 1983, holding various positions within the purchase and production departments.

4:00-5:30 Feast or Famine: The Impact of Biotechnology on Global Food Markets
William F. Kirk is Senior Vice President of DuPont in the USA. He has spent the majority of his career in the agriculture business at DuPont in a variety of roles in sales, marketing, manufacturing, and development. In the last two years, he has led the transformation of the Agricultural Enterprise, with major alliances and acquisitions in seed, feed, and food ingredients. He recently received recognition as Agri-Marketer of the Year from the US Agricultural Marketing Association and recognition for biotechnology leadership from the University of Illinois where he received his B.S. in Agriculture.
Alexander F. McCalla is Director of the Rural Development Department of the World Bank Group. Prior to joining the Bank, he was Professor of Agricultural Economics, Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environment Sciences and founding Dean of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. He also served as the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) System for seven years (1988-1994). Mr. McCalla has an M.A. in Economics from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota.
Bruce Rohde is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ConAgra, Inc., a diversified international food company. He is a member of the board of Grocery Manufacturers of America, Creighton University, and the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. Mr. Rohde also is a member of Harvard's Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Committee.

4:00-5:30 Beyond Debt Relief: Making the Link to Poverty Reduction*
Anthony Boote is Assistant Director in the IMF's Policy Development and Review Department (PDR). He joined the IMF in 1987 after 10 years in the U.K. Treasury. He worked on eastern Europe—Poland and Hungary—before moving to PDR—the Fund's central department—where he has dealt with developing country issues. Since 1995, he has been head of the Official Financing and Operations Division in PDR which handles all aspects of debt to official creditors.
Mauricio Díaz Burdett is Coordinator of Programs for the Association of Non-Governmental Organizations and the Technical Coordinator of the Social Forum on External Debt and Honduran Development. Mr. Díaz Burdett has been a financial and socio-political analyst of Honduras's external debt. He is Chief Consultant in the Central American region for the Program for Development for Displaced Persons, Refugees, and Repatriated peoples (a United Nations project). Mr. Burdett provided financial analysis for NGO projects in conjunction with UNDP.
Gerald M. Ssendaula is currently the Ugandan Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, and has been since 1998. He was the Minister of Natural Resources from 1996 to 1998, Minister of State Ministry of Trade and Industry from 1994- to 1996, and was Deputy Minister of Commerce and Co-operatives from 1990 to 1994. Mr. Ssendaula was also a member of the National Resistance Council in the Ugandan Parliament from 1989 to 1996, the political head/chairperson of the Masaka district from 1987 to 1989, and a member of the Ugandan Parliament from 1980 to 1985. A banker by profession, Mr. Ssendaula was with Barclays Bank from 1970 to 1980.
Axel van Trotsenburg is currently the Manager of the Heavily IndebtedPoor Countries (HIPC) Implementation Unit which is responsible for helping to implement the Debt Initiative for the HIPCs. He was previously the Senior Country Economist for Côte d'Ivoire at the World Bank,and held this position for more than three years. He was also a staff member at the OECD in Paris where he worked on debt issues.

4:00-5:30 Reality Versus Alarm: Y2K as a Lesson for Global Business
E. Jeffrey Berg is Director of the Y2K Program for Salomon Smith Barney. Mr. Berg has been with Salomon Smith Barney for two years, having also served as Director of Retail Systems Development. Prior to Salomon Smith Barney, Mr. Berg was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch where he was Project Manger for Merrill Lynch's retail branch automation project; Manager of Application Development for back office bookkeeping and statement systems; and Manager of the firm's database system development.
Flemming Larsen is Deputy Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. Since 1992, he has had the senior responsibility for the Fund's World Economic Outlook, the Fund's flagship publication. In addition, he directs an extensive program of research on global economic, monetary, and financial questions. From 1990 to 1992 (on leave from the IMF), Mr. Larsen was Division Chief in the European Commission, with responsibility for international monetary affairs.
Stephen R. Malphrus, is Staff Director of Management for the Federal Reserve Board, and former Director of the Division of Information Technology. He is a Member of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, and Chair of the Financial Sector Group. Correspondent, Joint Year 2000 Council, BIS.
Walter Richter is Chief of the Regional Development Department of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Switzerland. He worked previously for IBM and as Chief Executive Officer, Telecom, for the Austrian Post and Telekom Corporation.
Stuart A. Umpleby is Professor of Management Science at The George Washington University and Director of the GW Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. His research program has arranged panel discussions on Y2K topics such as "Y2K: Local, National and Global Concerns -- What Further Actions are needed?" He has participated in briefings on Y2K for government officials, corporate leaders, and association executives. He has written numerous articles on the subject and has lectured on Y2K in the US and several European countries.

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Tuesday, September 28, 1999

2:00-3:30	The New Global Education Industry Miguel A. Gómez Barnola is Director of the Centro de Planeación Educativa, Mexico. He was previously Director of Special Projects, and significantly contributed to the conceptual genesis of Proyecto Educación, a project designed to finance, build, and operate schools and universities in Mexico and Latin America. C.N. (Madhu) Madhusudan is President of Strategic Alliances of the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), a global software and training services company with global headquarters in New Delhi and US headquarters in Atlanta. As President, he spearheads NIIT's new alliance initiatives aimed at accelerating NIIT's growth. His current interests are mergers & acquisitions, e-commerce, and Internet-enabled applications and training systems. Michael T. Moe is Director of Global Growth Stock Research and a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch. In this capacity, Mr. Moe heads the firm's education and training group that provides fundamental research for education companies, such as Apollo Group, Sylvan Learning Systems, and Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Moe was a Senior Managing Director and Director of Growth Stock Strategy at NationsBank Montgomery Securities. Mr. Moe also worked at Lehman Brothers, where he authored the first investment white paper on the emerging education and training industry, The Dawn of the Age of Knowledge. Peter L. Woicke is Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. He was Chairman of J.P. Morgan Securities Asia and co-managed the global markets area of J.P. Morgan. As a member of J.P Morgan's management group, he worked in the brokerage department, the custody department, and the company's activities in Latin America. Mr. Woicke was closely involved with energy financing in the North Sea, Asia and Australia.

2:00-3:30	Project Finance in the Post-Crisis World Eugene W. Goodwillie, Jr. is a partner in the law firm of White & Case. He has significant experience in foreign investment projects, international and domestic natural resource project financing, international joint venture transactions and domestic and international securities transactions. Mr. Goodwillie was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and a cum laude graduate of Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1967. Alexander Kloosterman is Managing Director of ABN AMRO, responsible for Global Structured Finance (Project Finance and Advisory, Credit Structuring and Syndication, and Financial Engineering). He joined the ABN AMRO organization in 1983, and has served in a variety of management positions, both in the United States and abroad, including President (ad interim) of ABN AMRO Bank Brazil from 1992 until 1994. David Scholey, CBE is Senior Advisor in Warburg Dillon Read in the United Kingdom and former Executive Chairman of the S. G. Warburg Group. He is Chairman of the Banking Advisory Group of the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank. Eric Siegel is Executive Vice President of the Export Development Corporation (EDC), Canada, responsible for Medium- and Long-Term Financial Services. He joined EDC in 1979 and served in a variety of financing positions. In December 1988 he moved to Medium-Term Insurance and July 1995 was promoted to Senior Vice-President. In 1997 he assumed the title of Executive Vice-President.

2:00-3:30	Labor Standards: Complementing Public Standards with Market-Driven Initiatives * Janelle M. Diller is a Legal Officer within the Office of the Legal Adviser of the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland. Her publications have focussed on social and legal aspects of employment, investment and trade practices, including the role of non-state actors, and on the relationships among human rights, labor standards, development, peace-making, and displacement. Ms. Diller graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center and the Graduate School of Syracuse University in New York. Charles Sabel is Professor of Law and Social Sciences at Columbia University, New York. Previously he was Professor of Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published extensively on issues dealing with economic and social organization. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Norma Samaniego is Director of Santa Fé Consultores, a consulting company on economic issues linked with labor matters. She has previously served as Secretary of Auditing and Administrative Development under Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. Ms. Samaniego was Deputy Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare from 1991 to 1994. Under this position she headed the Mexican delegation that negotiated the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation. Ingrid Schullström is the Quality and Environmental Manager for Hennes & Mauritz. Her key task in this position has been to develop the company's Code of Conduct and implement it internally and externally. She is also responsible for organizing Hennes & Mauritz 's internal monitoring system. Ms. Schullström has worked for Hennes & Mauritz since 1983, holding various positions within the purchase and production departments.

4:00-5:30	Feast or Famine: The Impact of Biotechnology on Global Food Markets William F. Kirk is Senior Vice President of DuPont in the USA. He has spent the majority of his career in the agriculture business at DuPont in a variety of roles in sales, marketing, manufacturing, and development. In the last two years, he has led the transformation of the Agricultural Enterprise, with major alliances and acquisitions in seed, feed, and food ingredients. He recently received recognition as Agri-Marketer of the Year from the US Agricultural Marketing Association and recognition for biotechnology leadership from the University of Illinois where he received his B.S. in Agriculture. Alexander F. McCalla is Director of the Rural Development Department of the World Bank Group. Prior to joining the Bank, he was Professor of Agricultural Economics, Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environment Sciences and founding Dean of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. He also served as the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) System for seven years (1988-1994). Mr. McCalla has an M.A. in Economics from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota. Bruce Rohde is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ConAgra, Inc., a diversified international food company. He is a member of the board of Grocery Manufacturers of America, Creighton University, and the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. Mr. Rohde also is a member of Harvard's Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Committee.

4:00-5:30	Beyond Debt Relief: Making the Link to Poverty Reduction* Anthony Boote is Assistant Director in the IMF's Policy Development and Review Department (PDR). He joined the IMF in 1987 after 10 years in the U.K. Treasury. He worked on eastern Europe—Poland and Hungary—before moving to PDR—the Fund's central department—where he has dealt with developing country issues. Since 1995, he has been head of the Official Financing and Operations Division in PDR which handles all aspects of debt to official creditors. Mauricio Díaz Burdett is Coordinator of Programs for the Association of Non-Governmental Organizations and the Technical Coordinator of the Social Forum on External Debt and Honduran Development. Mr. Díaz Burdett has been a financial and socio-political analyst of Honduras's external debt. He is Chief Consultant in the Central American region for the Program for Development for Displaced Persons, Refugees, and Repatriated peoples (a United Nations project). Mr. Burdett provided financial analysis for NGO projects in conjunction with UNDP. Gerald M. Ssendaula is currently the Ugandan Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, and has been since 1998. He was the Minister of Natural Resources from 1996 to 1998, Minister of State Ministry of Trade and Industry from 1994- to 1996, and was Deputy Minister of Commerce and Co-operatives from 1990 to 1994. Mr. Ssendaula was also a member of the National Resistance Council in the Ugandan Parliament from 1989 to 1996, the political head/chairperson of the Masaka district from 1987 to 1989, and a member of the Ugandan Parliament from 1980 to 1985. A banker by profession, Mr. Ssendaula was with Barclays Bank from 1970 to 1980. Axel van Trotsenburg is currently the Manager of the Heavily IndebtedPoor Countries (HIPC) Implementation Unit which is responsible for helping to implement the Debt Initiative for the HIPCs. He was previously the Senior Country Economist for Côte d'Ivoire at the World Bank,and held this position for more than three years. He was also a staff member at the OECD in Paris where he worked on debt issues.

4:00-5:30	Reality Versus Alarm: Y2K as a Lesson for Global Business E. Jeffrey Berg is Director of the Y2K Program for Salomon Smith Barney. Mr. Berg has been with Salomon Smith Barney for two years, having also served as Director of Retail Systems Development. Prior to Salomon Smith Barney, Mr. Berg was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch where he was Project Manger for Merrill Lynch's retail branch automation project; Manager of Application Development for back office bookkeeping and statement systems; and Manager of the firm's database system development. Flemming Larsen is Deputy Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund. Since 1992, he has had the senior responsibility for the Fund's World Economic Outlook, the Fund's flagship publication. In addition, he directs an extensive program of research on global economic, monetary, and financial questions. From 1990 to 1992 (on leave from the IMF), Mr. Larsen was Division Chief in the European Commission, with responsibility for international monetary affairs. Stephen R. Malphrus, is Staff Director of Management for the Federal Reserve Board, and former Director of the Division of Information Technology. He is a Member of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, and Chair of the Financial Sector Group. Correspondent, Joint Year 2000 Council, BIS. Walter Richter is Chief of the Regional Development Department of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Switzerland. He worked previously for IBM and as Chief Executive Officer, Telecom, for the Austrian Post and Telekom Corporation. Stuart A. Umpleby is Professor of Management Science at The George Washington University and Director of the GW Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. His research program has arranged panel discussions on Y2K topics such as "Y2K: Local, National and Global Concerns -- What Further Actions are needed?" He has participated in briefings on Y2K for government officials, corporate leaders, and association executives. He has written numerous articles on the subject and has lectured on Y2K in the US and several European countries.