James W. Adams

Vice President and Network Head, Operations Policy and Country Services, World Bank James W. Adams, Vice President and Network Head, Operations Policy and Country Services, at the World Bank. Since joining the Bank in 1974, he has held a variety of operational positions in East Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Most recently, Mr. Adams served as Country Director for Tanzania and Uganda. He has also served as Director for Operations Policy, and as a Division Chief of several departments. Before joining the Bank, Mr. Adams worked as a loan officer for Merchants Bank, in Syracuse, NY. Mr. Adams studied at Colgate University, and holds an MPA from Princeton University.

Ajay Chhibber

Ajay Chhibber is Acting Director-General, Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank and was formerly Country Director for Turkey from 1997-2003. He was staff Director for the World Development Report 1997, The State in a Changing World. Mr. Chhibber has a Ph.D from Stanford University. He joined the World Bank as a Young Professional in 1983, and has served in a variety of research, policy and operational positions at the World Bank. He has published several books and numerous articles.

Chris Gerrard

Chris Gerrard, a Canadian national, has an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Minnesota. He is a senior economist in the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank, and co-author with Uma Lele of Addressing the Challenges of Globalization: An Independent Evaluation of the World Bank’s Approach to Global Programs. He was a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, for thirteen years before joining the Bank in 1994, and the task manager of the World Bank Institute training program on "Policy and Institutional Reform for Sustainable Rural Development", a world-wide program with a special emphasis on Africa, before moving to IEG in 1999. He has also worked in Ethiopia with the U.N. Economic Commission on Africa and in Kenya for U.S. Agency for International Development. His main interests are macroeconomic and sectoral adjustment, agricultural policy and institutional reform, decentralization, natural resource management, and the theory and practice of collective action. He is currently (2005) the task manager of IEG ’s Annual Review of Development Effectiveness on “The Bank’s Contributions to Poverty Reduction.”

Ruth Jacoby

Ruth Jacoby joined the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1970 serving as First Secretary (UN Agencies) in the Office for International Development Cooperation, Multilateral Department from 1972 – 1976; First Secretary (International Financial Institution) Office for Development Cooperation, Multilateral Department from 1976-1980; First Secretary, Swedish Delegation to the OECD in Paris, Swedish Representative to DAC and Development Centre, Vice Chairman of the Public Management Committee, OECD from 1980-1984; Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Office for International Development Cooperation (Policy Evaluation) 1984-86; Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Trade Department (Debt Issues) 19861988; Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary, Ministry of Finance, International Department (Debt negotiator, Paris Club, Bilateral Debt Negotiations) 1989-1990; and Assistant Under-Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of Secretariat for Cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe from 1990-1994. In 1994 she was elected to serve as Executive Director to the World Bank Group for a constituency of countries including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden. She served on the Bank’s Executive Board until August 1997. Ambassador Jacoby has also served on the Boards of the African Development Fund, the Swedish Export Credit Guarantee Board, SwedeCorp, the Social Development Fund of Europe, SwedFund International AB, and the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation. She was educated at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, where she received an MA in Economics, Economic History and Philosophy, and also lectured.

Louka T. Katseli

Louka T. Katseli is head of the OECD Development Centre in Paris since July 2003. Until then she was Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. Prof. Katseli has received two Masters Degrees – M.A in Public Policy (1974) and M.A. in Economic Science (1975) -as well as a PhD in Economics (1978) from Princeton University. As Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University U.S.A. (1977-1985) she received, in 1980, the best-new-professor award and a two-year fellowship from the German Marshall Fund (1984). She has published over 40 articles in international academic journals and/or books in the areas of international migration, foreign direct investment and macroeconomic policy.

Professor Katseli has served in the past as Director General of the Center of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE) in Athens (1982-86), as a Special Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece (1993-1996), and as a Special Advisor to the Greek Minister of Education (1996-1998). She has also served as Member in a number of prominent international or European Committees such as the European Commission’s Economic and Monetary Policy Committees, the “Comité des Sages” on the reform of the European Social Charter (1995-1997), and the Committee of Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nations.

Jim Muhwezi Katugugu

The Honorable Brigadier Jim Muhwezi Katugugu currently serves as Minister of Health and M.P. for Rujumbura County, in the Rukungiri District of Uganda. An LLB graduate of Makerere University, he is also a distinguished member of Uganda’s People’s Defense Forces. He has held Parliamentary and Constituency offices since 1986 including Director General of the Internal Security Organisation, Minister of State in Charge of Primary Education, Chairman of the Commonwealth Security Conference, and was appointed as the Minister of Health in 2001. Mr. Katugugu is also the acting Chairman of the Movement (NRM) for the Rukungiri District.

Inge Kaul

Inge Kaul is director of the Office of Development Studies at the United Nations Development Programme. From 1990 to 1995 she served as director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP, where she coordinated a team of authors producing the annual Human Development Report. Before that she held senior policy positions at UNDP. She has extensive research experience in developing countries and is the author of a number of publications and reports on development financing and aid.

Uma Lele

Uma Lele is Senior Adviser in the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank, an independent unit which reports to the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors. She recently completed the first independent evaluation of 70 global programs in which the World Bank partners with a variety of international agencies, bilateral donors, NGOs and the private sector. The programs span several sectors including the environment, health, infrastructure, finance, trade, science and technology and conflict. They involve Bank management of trust funds of well over $3 billion. The evaluation addressed strategic, programmatic and program specific issues in organizing global collective action based on in-depth analysis of 26 global programs including the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research. The recommendations are leading to reforms in the strategy, organization and management of the Bank’s global program portfolio. The independent evaluation of the World Bank’s controversial 1991 forest policy she led resulted in the reformulation of the Bank’s forest policy. She co-chaired a high level taskforce of the China’s International Council on Environment and Development (CCICED) with (Professor Shen Gao Feng, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Science) reporting its findings to then Chinese Premier Zhu Rongi. Her work has resulted in reforms in the Chinese forest policy and has been written up by IEG as an influential evaluation.

Uma Lele has also served in various capacities in research and operational departments of the World Bank. Through leadership of complex multidisciplinary teams of research, operational and policy staff, through advice and publications she has made important contributions in the areas of aid effectiveness, agriculture and rural development, science and technology, forestry and environment, health, and global collective action.

The first woman Ph. D from Cornell University’s Agricultural Economic Department, Ms. Lele served as Graduate Research Professor at the University of Florida’s Food and Resource Economics Department. from 1991 to 1997. She established the University’s Office of International Studies and Programs overseeing the university’s 16 colleges and served as its first Director. She also established President Carter’s Global Development Initiative, serving as its first director. With Professor Ronnie Coffman of Cornell University Ms. Lele co-chaired the GREAN (Global Research on Environmental and Agricultural Nexus) Initiative, a coalition of scientists from U.S. universities, CGIAR Centers, and developing countries’ agricultural research systems to foster long term collaborative research, teaching, and technology transfer.

Uma Lele has served on the boards and advisory committees of many organizations. She currently serves on Cornell University President’s Advisory Council of Cornell Women and on the High Level Advisory Panel of the External Independent Evaluation of the Global Environmental Facility. She is Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association, written or edited 15 books or book length publications and well over 100 papers on development related issues.

She has a married son. She is an amateur gardener, skier, sailor and musician.

Deepak Nayyar

Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi. Professor Nayyar is a distinguished economist, having taught at theUniversity of Oxford, University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and Jariasharlal University, New Delhi. He also lectured at the University of Paris and Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India and was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. The author of numerous books and articles, Professor Nayyar is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the World Institute for Development Economics Research, and a Member of the Advisory Council for the International Development Centre at the University of Oxford.

Nafis Sadik, M.D.

Dr. (Mrs.) Nafis Sadik is Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. She is a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. Dr. Sadik previously held the post of Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from 1987-2000, with the rank of Under-Secretary-General, and was the first woman to head one of the UN’s major voluntarily-funded programmes. A national of Pakistan, Dr. Sadik was born in Jaunpur, India. She was educated at Loreto College ( India) and received her medical degree from Dow College ( Karachi, Pakistan). She completed further studies at The Johns Hopkins University (USA) and held the post of Research Fellow in Physiology at Queens University ( Kingston, Ontario, Canada). Her professional career began as a physician in Pakistan, and was Pakistan’s Director General of the Central Family Planning Council. Dr. Sadik is a dynamic leader in the field of international maternal and child health issues, as well as reproductive and sexual health. She has been honored with numerous national and international awards, most recent of which was her selection as the Laureate, in the individual category, of the United Nations Population Award 2001 for her outstanding contribution to the awareness of population issues. In addition, Dr. Sadik is a Commissioner of the Global Commission on International Migration, and a Board member of the Foundation for Human Development, the UN Foundation, the Asia Society, the South Asian Commission on the Asian Challenge as well as several other international and national foundations and universities. She is the author of numerous publications in the areas of reproductive health and family, population and development, women, and gender and development.

Sven Sandstrom

Sven Sandström retired from the World Bank on December 15, 2001 after a 30-year career, of which the last ten as Managing Director. During his career with the World Bank, he worked in the transport, water and sanitation, and urban development sectors, and held management positions in the Asia and Africa Regions. From 1987 to 1990, he served as Director of the Bank’s Southern Africa Department, and from 1990 to 1991 as Director of the Office of the President.

As Managing Director from 1991 to 2001, Sven Sandström at various times had oversight responsibility for most of the Bank’s vice-presidential units, and most recently for the Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, and East Asia and Pacific Regions; the Corporate Secretariat; External Affairs; Resource Mobilization and Cofinancing; and the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network. He also had overall responsibility for the International Development Association and chaired the Bank’s Operations Committee. In the absence of the Bank’s President, he served as Acting President and Chairman of the Board.

Sven Sandström now serves as adviser and director with a number of private corporations and public institutions in Europe and USA.

Sven Sandström was born in northern Sweden in 1941. He graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Dr.Sc. in civil engineering), Stockholm School of Economics (M.B.A.), and the University of Stockholm (B.A.). He worked as a consultant in Sweden from 1966 to 1968 and as a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Business School from 1969 to 1972.

Jean-Louis Sarbib

Jean-Louis Sarbib a French national, was appointed Senior Vice President, Human Development Network in July 2003. He advises the institution and its client countries on innovative and integrated approaches to improving health, education, and social protection with a view to helping meet the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). Mr. Sarbib represents the Bank on a number of global initiatives (GAVI -- Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, UNAIDS Committee of Co-sponsoring Organizations, Education for All Fast Track Initiative, Health Metrics Network, etc.) and serves on a number of boards of international organizations involved in human development.

From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Sarbib served as the Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa Region and managed operations that accounted for $1 billion (FY03) in new loans as well as Technical Cooperation Programs throughout the Middle East and North Africa. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Sarbib was the World Bank’s Vice President for Africa.Mr. Sarbib joined the Bank in 1980 to work on Africa. In 1985, he moved to the East and South Africa Country Programs Department to serve as Senior Loan Officer. In 1986, Mr. Sarbib was promoted to the position of Deputy Division Chief of the Industry Department's Mining and Non-Ferrous Metals Division, and in 1987, he became Operations Advisor for the Africa Region. He was appointed Country Operations Division Chief for the Sahel in 1990 and Director for the Western Africa Department in 1994.

Mr. Sarbib graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, before going on to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate studies in city and regional planning. After working for the French Ministry of Industry as Deputy Director of the Groupe de Reflexion sur les Stratégies Industrielles (GRESI), he returned to teach in the United States, at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Adele Smith Simmons

Adele Simmons is Vice Chair of Chicago Metropolis 2020, a senior advisor to the World Economic Forum where she is assisting a project to strengthen global philanthropy. She is also a Senior Associate at the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago and a founder of Global Chicago. Mrs. Simmons was President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a decade, overseeing grants of over $1.5 billion. The Foundation's international programs focus on the environment, population, international peace and security, understanding inequality within and among nations. Since leaving the MacArthur Foundation, Mrs. Simmons has been spending much of her time addressing issues of global philanthropy through her work with the World Economic Forum, the Synergos Institute, The Philanthropic Initiative and the Global Equity Initiative. She is currently on the Board of Marsh and McLennan Companies, and a number of non-profit organizations, including the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations, Synergos Institute, the Global Fund for Women, the Hague Appeal for Peace, Environmental Defense, the Rocky Mountain Institute, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Field Museum. Mrs. Simmons served on President Carter's Commission on World Hunger and President Bush's Commission on Sustainable Development and was a member of the Commission on Global Governance as well as the UN High Level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development. Before joining the MacArthur Foundation, Mrs. Simmons was President of Hampshire College.

Shengman Zhang

Shengman Zhang, a Chinese national, was appointed Managing Director of the World Bank Group in 1997. Mr. Zhang oversees all the six Operational regions of the Bank and the Operations Policy and Country Strategy Vice Presidency. He also oversees the Bank's four key Sector/Thematic Networks, including Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Human Development, Infrastructure, and Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development. In addition, Mr. Zhang oversees the Information Solutions Group and Network, the Human Resources Vice Presidency, the Corporate Secretariat, the Development Committee, the Quality Assurance Group, and the General Services Department. He chairs the Bank's Operations Policy Committee, the Operations Committee, the Sanctions Committee and the Corporate Committee on Fraud and Corruption Policy. Mr. Zhang is also Chairman of the Bank Group's Crisis Management Committee. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Zhang was Vice President and Secretary of the World Bank from 1995 to 1997; and Executive Director for China from 1994 to 1995. Earlier, Mr. Zhang held a number of senior positions at the Ministry of Finance in China.