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MORNING
SESSIONS
8:30 – 9:00am - Breakfast and Registration
9:00 – 9:45am - Keynote Address
Welcoming Remarks:
Gregory K. Ingram, Director-General, Operations Evaluation,
World Bank
Shengman Zhang, Managing Director, World Bank
Speaker: H.E. M. Saifur Rahman, Minister for Finance
and Planning, Bangladesh
9:45 – 11:00am - Plenary: Effectiveness of Bank Support
for Policy Reform
Chair: François Bourguignon, Sr. Vice President
& Chief Economist, Development Economics, World Bank
Speaker: Robert J. Anderson, Jr. , Lead Evaluation
Officer Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Commentators:
Masood Ahmed, Director General, Policy and International ,
Department for International Development
Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Executive Director for Brazil,
Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines,
Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago
Tony Killick, Senior Research Associate, Overseas Development
Institute
11:00 – 11:15am - Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30pm - Plenary: Country Program Retrospective
Chair: James Adams, Vice President and Head of Network,
Operations Policy and Country Services, World Bank
Speaker: R. Kyle Peters, Senior Manager, Country Evaluation
and Regional Relations, Independent Evaluation Group,
World Bank
Commentators:
Willem Buiter, Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development
Ishrat Husain, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan
Miguel Urrutia Montoya, General Manager, Central Bank of Colombia
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
2:00 – 3:15pm: Breakout Sessions on Lessons from Country
Programs
a)
Middle Income Countries: Lessons from Brazil, China
and Tunisia (Room J1-050)
Chair: Pamela Cox, Director, Strategy and Operations,
World Bank Africa Region
Speaker: S. Ramachandran, Senior Evaluation Officer,
Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Commentators:
Joaquim Levy, Secretary of the National Treasury, Ministry
of Finance, Brazil
Johannes F. Linn, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution;
Former Regional Vice President for Europe and Central
Asia, World Bank
Kamel Ben Rejeb, Director General, Tunisian Ministry
of Development and International Cooperation |
b)
Lessons from Post-Conflict Countries
(Preston Auditorium)
Chair: Christiaan Poortman, Regional Vice President
for Middle East and North Africa, World Bank
Speakers:
Fareed M.A. Hassan, Senior Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
F. Stephen O’Brien, Consultant, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Commentators:
H.E. Donald Kaberuka, Minister of Finance and Planning,
Government of Rwanda
H.E. Ljerka Maric, Minister, Government Ministry of
Finance and Treasury, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mark Medish, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
United States Treasury for International Affairs
Margaret Thomas, Assistant Director General, Pacific
Branch, Australian Agency for International Development |
3:15 – 3:30pm - Coffee / Reassembly
3:30 – 4:45pm - Plenary: Poverty Reduction Strategies
Chair: Danny Leipziger, Sector Director for Finance,
Private Sector and Infrastructure, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region, World Bank
Speaker: Victoria Elliott, Manager Corporate Evaluation
and Methods, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Commentators:
Pedro C. Couto, Director, Economic Studies Cabinet, Ministry
of Planning and Finance, Mozambique
Eveline Herfkens, Executive Director, United Nations Millennium
Development Goals Campaign
Ana Quirós Víquez, General Director Centre of
Information and Advisory Services on Health, Nicaragua
4:45 – 5:30pm - Closing Remarks
Introduction: Ajay Chhibber, Director, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Speakers:
Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
Kemal Dervis, Member of Turkish Parliament; Former Minister
of Economic Affairs, Turkey
5:30 – 7:00pm - Reception (MC 12th Floor Gallery)
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