About the Speakers
Dr. Mamphela
Ramphele, Managing Director, The World Bank
Mr. G.H.P.B.
Van der Linden, Vice PresidentP, Asian Development
Bank
Mr.
Paulo de Tarso Almeida Paiva, Vice President, Inter-American
Development
Mr. Agustin
Carstens assumed office as Deputy Managing Director
of the International Monetary Fund on August 1, 2003.
As a citizen of Mexico born in 1958, Mr. Carstens has
a Ph.D. (1985) and M.A. (1983) in Economics from the University
of Chicago. He has a B.A. in Economics from Tecnológico
Autónomo de México (ITAM)(1982). Prior to
taking up his current position he was Mexico's Deputy
Secretary of Finance. From 1999-2000, Mr. Carstens served
as an Executive Director at the IMF (representing Costa
Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Spain and Venezuela), after a career at the Banco de México
(central bank), where his positions included those of
Director General, Economic Research and Chief of Staff
in the Governor's office. In addition, he has been an
organizer of the United Nations Confer-ence on Financing
for Development in Monterrey and of meetings of the Group
of 20, and has served as Alternate Governor for Mexico
at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.
He has published articles in collections edited by: the
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the University of London,
OECD, IMF and World Bank. He has also published articles
in the following journals: Columbia Journal of World
Business, American Economic Review, Journal of Asian Economics,
Journal of International Finance, Cuadernos Economicos
del ICE (Spain) and Gaceta de Economia del ITAM (Mexico).
Mr. Mark
Malloch Brown has served as the Administrator of the
United Nations Development Programme, the UN's global
development network, since July 1999. In May 2003, UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed him to a second
four-year term. He is also the Chair of the United Nations
Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads
of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on
development issues.
During his tenure at UNDP, Mr. Malloch Brown has overseen
a comprehensive reform that has been widely recognized
as making UNDP more focused, efficient and effective across
the 166 countries where it works. His efforts have included
a major push to expand UN support to developing countries
in areas such as democratic governance and using information
and communications technology to support development.
At the request of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Mr.
Malloch Brown is also leading the UN system in developing
a strategy to help support the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals - eight, time-bound development targets
with the overarching goal of halving extreme poverty by
2015 - which were agreed to by world leaders at the UN
Millennium Summit of September 2000.
Prior to his appointment with UNDP, Mark Malloch Brown
served at the World Bank as Vice-President for External
Affairs and Vice-President for United Nations Affairs
from 1996 to 1999. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr.
Malloch Brown was the lead international partner from
1986 to 1994 in a stra-tegic communications management
firm, the Sawyer-Miller Group, where he worked with corporations,
governments and political candidates. Mr. Malloch Brown
founded the Economist Development Report, a monthly report
on the aid community and the political economy for development.
He served as the report's editor from 1983 to 1986. Previously,
from 1977 to 1979, he had been the political correspondent
of The Economist.
From 1979 to 1983, he worked for the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). From 1979 to 1981,
he was stationed in Thailand, where he was in charge of
field operations for Cambodian refugees. Active in human
rights and refugee issues, he formerly served as Vice-Chairman
of the Board of Refugees International in Washington,
D.C., and was active in early support for refugees in
Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has written and broadcast extensively
on development, refugees, and interna-tional financial
and political matters.
A British citizen, Mr. Malloch Brown received a First
Class Honours Degree in History from Magdalene College,
Cambridge University and a Master's Degree in Political
Science from the University of Michigan. He is married
with four children.
Mr. Paul
Isenman, OECD
Mr.
Shengman Zhang 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.
Mr.
Mohammed Saifur Raman, Minister of Finance & Planning,
Bangladesh
His Excellency
Benjamin William Mkapa, President of the United Republic
of Tanzania
