Advisory Committee
The role of the Advisory Committee is to advise IEG 's senior
management and the evaluation team with respect to the design,
conduct, and outputs of the evaluation. With their diverse
backgrounds, the four members bring quite different
perspectives and serve in their own capacity. Their
responsibilities include bringing to bear external views on
policy, analytical, and operational issues related to the
policies and programs being evaluated, and reviewing and
commenting upon the intermediate and final products of the
evaluation on a periodic basis.
 Rolf J.
Luders
Rolf J. Luders is a Professor of Economics at the Institute of
Economics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and
editor of Cuadernos de Economia, the Latin American Journal of
Economics. He received an MBA and Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Chicago. He has been Dean of the Faculty of
Economics and Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic
University (1968-1971), Director of the Capital Market
Development Program of the Organization of American States
(1971-1974), Chairman of the Morgan-Finansa Bank in Chile, a
member of the Legislative Commissions of Chile (1974-1981),
Secretary of the Economy and Secretary of Finance of Chile
(1982-1983), and Director General of the International Center
for Economic Growth (ICEG) from 1994 to 1997. He is co-author
of several books and has written numerous journal articles. He
occasionally serves as a consultant to the World Bank, the
United Nations, the U.S. Agency for International Development,
MEFMI, EPIC, and other international organizations.
Wolfgang Reinicke
Wolfgang H. Reinicke is Managing Director of galaxar s.a.,
Geneva, and Director,
Global Public
Policy Project. He has been a Senior Partner and Senior
Economist in the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank
(1998-2000), a senior scholar at the Brookings Institution
(1991-1998), held positions as a strategic management
consultant for Roland Berger in Munich and in the operations
department at Dresdner Bank in London, and a consultant to the
National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Agency for
International Development.
Dr. Reinicke is the recipient of numerous awards and
fellowships. His areas of expertise include global economic
integration and global public policy, global finance,
international economic institutions, transatlantic relations,
European integration, Germany, the political economy of ethnic
conflict, export controls and proliferation. He has testified
before the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag on
international economic and policy issues. Dr. Reinicke is a
fellow of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Academic
Council of the American Institute for Contemporary German
Studies, a Board member of the Stiftung Zukunft Schweiz, and
an advisor to several U.S. and European foundations.
Dr. Reinicke earned his B.Sc. in Economics from Queen Mary
College of London University and an M.A. in International
Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins University. He
received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale
University. His recent publications include:
· Critical Choices. The United Nations, Networks, and the
Future of Global Governance, with Francis M. Deng, Jan
Martin Witte, and Thorsten Benner (2000)
· Global Public Policy: The Role of Non-Binding International
Legal Accords, with Jan Martin Witte, in Dinah Shelton
(ed.), Compliance with Nonbinding International Legal Accords:
A Challenge to International Law (2000)
· Beyond Multilateralism: Global Public Policy Networks,
with Thorsten Benner and Jan Martin Witte, International
Politics and Society 2/2000
· "The Other World Wide Web: Global Public Policy Networks",
Foreign Policy 117 (1999)
· "Hands on the Bridge," Worldlink,
January/February 1999; Global Public Policy: Governing Without
Government? (1998)
Dr.
(Mrs.) Nafis Sadik
Dr. (Mrs.) Nafis Sadik is the former Executive Director of
the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), holding the rank
of Under-Secretary-General. On her appointment in 1987, she
became the first woman to head one of the United Nations'
major voluntarily-funded programs. She retired from UNFPA in
December 2000, and is currently Special Adviser to the U.N.
Secretary-General. In June 1990, the Secretary-General
appointed her Secretary-General of the International
Conference on Population an Development.
A national of Pakistan, Dr. Sadik received her doctor of
medicine degree from Dow Medical College (Karachi). She
completed her internship in gynaecology and obstetrics at City
Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland (USA), and completed further
studies at The Johns Hopkins University (USA), and has held
the post of Research Fellow in physiology at Queens University
(Canada).
Dr. Sadik's expertise is in the areas of reproductive health
and family, population and development, women, and gender and
development. Her contributions to improving the health of
women and children of the global community have brought her
numerous international awards and honors, and several honorary
degrees. She enjoys membership on several boards of
directors/advisory panels including: The United Nations
Foundation (New York); World Population Foundation (Brussels);
the Board of Trustees of the International Women's University
(Hanover, Germany); Pathfinder International; The Center for
Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP); the Advisory Board of
Society for the Promotion of Community Health, Education and
Training (Pakistan); the International Advisory Panel of the
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School, NYU; the UNESCO
International Advisory Panel (Paris, France); the Coordinating
Committee for the Transition to Sustainability; and The
National Academy of Sciences (Washington. D.C.).
She has edited several books, among them:
·
Population: The UNFPA Experience (New York University
Press, 1984)
· Population Policies and Programmes: Lessons Learned from
Two Decades of Experience, (New York University Press,
1991)
· Making a Difference: Twenty-five Years of UNFPA
Experience (Banson, London, United Kingdom, 1994)
Adele
Smith Simmons
Adele Simmons, a U.S. national, is currently Vice Chair
and Senior Executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020 where she
directs the not-for-profit organization's work on human
capital. She is also a senior research associate at the Center
for International Studies at the University of Chicago, and a
senior advisor to the World Economic Forum for philanthropy.
Mrs. Simmons was the president of the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation from 1989 to 1999. The foundation's
global program worked to foster peace within and among
nations; responsible choices about human reproduction; and a
global ecosystem capable of supporting healthy human
societies. Under Mrs. Simmons' leadership, the Foundation
launched a new initiative on climate change, established the
Energy Foundation, and began a program to support economic
research focusing on inequality.
Mrs. Simmons presently is on the board of Marsh & McLennan
Companies, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Synergos
Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Rocky Mountain
Institute, the Global Fund for Women, and the Field Museum,
Chicago. She is on the Advisory Committee of the World Bank
Institute.
Mrs. Simmons has served on several corporate boards, including
the board of First Chicago/NBD Corporation and on two presidential
commissions: President Carter's Commission on World Hunger,
and President Bush's on Sustainable Environment. She was a
member of the international Commission on Global Governance,
which focused on improving international institutions for
global cooperation and served on the United Nations High-Level
Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.
The
Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is an independent unit within the World
Bank; it reports directly to the Bank's Board of Executive
Directors. The goals of IEG 's evaluations are to draw lessons
from Bank experience, and to provide an objective basis for
assessing the results of the Bank's work.
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