Mr. John Daniel Pollner
Lead Financial Sector Specialist, LCSFF
World Bank
I 5-099
Washington, DC 20433

John Pollner is Lead Financial Sector Specialist in the Finance Sector Unit of the World Bank's Latin America Region. He has specialized in the development of projects and research in catastrophe insurance and risk transfer instruments for developing countries, and the use of multi-instrument structures (including Bank credit lines) to support catastrophe insurance coverage mechanisms. He also works extensively in banking sector regulation and balance sheet restructuring including the modernization of bank resolution and exit procedures, as well as in areas pertaining to the reform of private pension systems and their investment environments. Mr. Pollner has worked on lending projects and economic sector work in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Central America and the Caribbean. Prior to the Bank he was employed at the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Pollner has a Finance MBA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.