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February 12, 2010
Social Safety Nets Core Course 2010 – Speakers’ Bios
Name Bio
Alderman, Harold Dr. Harold Alderman is currently a researcher in the Human Development & Public Services team of the
Development Research Group. With a Master's in nutrition and a Ph.D. in economics much of his research
has been on the economics of nutrition interventions and food pricing policies. He has also undertaken
research on early child development, gender discrimination in schooling and on decentralization of public
services.
Ayala, Francisco Head of Ayala Consulting Company in Ecuador. Francisco‟s expertise comes from his more than 15 years
experience as international consultant with aspects related to the design and implementation of projects such
as conditional cash transfer, education, health, housing, and social protection networks. He has worked in
more than 50 projects, about 25 countries in America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Currently his company is
providing technical assistance in the design and/or implementation of cash transfer programs in Kazakhstan,
Kenya, Macedonia, Laos, Eritrea, Pakistan, Yemen, Nigeria and Peru, targeting system in Trinidad and
Tobago, education projects in Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname, and housing subsidy program in Guyana.
Francisco Ayala is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Administration and Economics, with a Masters degree in
Business Administration and undergraduate studies in Chemical and Sanitation Engineering.
del Ninno, Carlo Carlo del Ninno is a senior economist in the Social Protection Africa Unit working on safety nets policies
and programs and he is engaged in several West African French speaking countries. He also worked in the
social protection unit of the World Bank working of various aspects of Safety Nets and Social Protection
issues and provided support to various countries in Africa and South Asia. Before returning to the World
Bank, where he worked on household surveys and poverty analysis in several countries for the Policy
Research Division, Carlo spent several years in Bangladesh working on food security issues for IFPRI. He
received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota.
Escobar, Armando Armando Escobar is an expert in public policy and administration, with particular focus on poverty and
quantitative analysis. He has been Strategic Director of Acción Social during the last two years and formerly
its General Secretary during five years. He has also been part of the staff at the University of Pennsylvania´s
Center for Population Studies and adjunct professor of several universities in Bogota. Today his main focus
of work is on Internally Displaced Populations and poverty alleviation
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Fiszbein, Ariel Ariel Fiszbein is Chief Economist for Human Development, advisor to the World Bank's Chief Economist
and coordinator for the Development Impact Evaluation initiative at the World Bank. He co-leads the
preparation of a Policy Research Report on Conditional Cash Transfers. He has held several positions at the
World Bank, including Lead Economist in the Human Development Department for Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Gomez Hermosillo, Rogelio Gomez Hermosillo studied Sociology in UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
Rogelio Former National Coordinator of the Oportunidades Program in Mexico, between 2001 and 2006. Progresa -
Oportunidades has been a reference for CCTs all over the world. Since 2007, is a consultant for the World
Bank, the IADB and the UNDP involved in projects with CCTs in several countries. He has a solid
background in civil society organizations (NGOs) in Mexico promoting fair elections, transparency,
democracy and development. Currently is the President of Alianza Civica.
Grosh, Margaret Margaret Grosh is the Lead Economist in LAC Human Development at the World Bank. She has worked on
different aspects of poverty and/or safety net programs for the World Bank since 1986. She is presently the
Lead Specialist for Safety Nets in the Social Protection Network anchor and practice leader for the Safety
Nets Global Expert Team. Her most recent book (co-authored) is For Protection and Promotion: The Design
and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets (2008). She was co-organizer of the 2006 Istanbul International
Conference on Conditional Cash Transfer programs, and a contributing author for the major policy research
report that reviews the lessons from the experience of conditional cash transfer programs, Conditional Cash
Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty (2009).
She led the Living Standards Measurement Study survey team in the research department for 6 years,
fostering the collection and analysis of survey data to inform social policy (including safety nets programs)
and prior to that worked on human development in the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World
Bank. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell.
Leite, Phillippe Phillippe Leite is Economist at the Human Development Network. Before joining the network team, he
worked for the Development Research Group on determinants of poverty and inequality, poverty maps
methodology, evaluation and design of social safety-nets programs to poor families, and micro-econometric
simulation models. He holds a B.A. and M.S. in statistics (sampling and modeling) from ENCE/Brazil, M.S.
in Economics from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and is finishing his Ph.D in
economics from École d‟Économie de Paris.
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Lindert, Kathy Kathy Lindert is currently Sector Manager for the Human Development Sector Unit of the Europe and
Central Asia Region (ECSHD). Prior to that, she served as the Sector Leader for Human Development in
World Bank's Brazil Office, overseeing the portfolio for education, health and social protection in Brazil. A
specialist in safety nets design and implementation, she has worked as the World Bank‟s resident social
protection economist in Brazil for five years, including managing the Bank‟s projects to support Brazil's
Bolsa Familia Program (conditional cash transfer). She has worked in the Bank for close to 18 years,
covering the issues of poverty, social protection, human development, social spending and monitoring and
evaluation. She has worked in the Middle East-North Africa Region (Tunisia, Morocco, Gaza), Europe and
Central Asia (throughout the region) and Latin America (Panama, Guatemala and Brazil). She has a Ph.D.
and M.A. in Economics from the University of California at Davis and a B.A. from the American University
of Paris.
Martinez, Sebastian Sebastian Martinez is an Economist in the World Bank‟s Human Development Network. He holds a Ph.D.
in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, with a specialization in development economics
and applied micro-econometrics. His work focuses on the evaluation of social programs and policies in the
developing world, spanning the areas of health, labor, education, social protection and housing. Sebastian has
led the design and implementation of over a dozen large scale impact evaluations and has provided technical
advice to over one hundred projects worldwide.
Molano, Diego Diego Andres Molano Aponte is currently acting as a Presidential Advisor and Director of 'Accion Social' in
Bogota, Colombia. Formerly acted as Program Coordinator of MIDAS, Director of Presidential Programs of
'Accion Social' and as Social Coordinator of 'Plan Colombia'. He also worked as an special advisor for the
Colombian Water Management Entity and professor of Political Science and Government and International
Relations of Rosario University. He also held policy advisor positions in New York and Boston. Last but not
least, Diego Molano holds an MBA from the Rosario University, an an specialization degree in International
Integration of Javeriana Universtiy as well as an MPP of the School of International and Public Affairs of
Colombia University.
Nallari, Raj Raj Nallari is currently Manager of the Growth and Crisis Team within the World Bank Institute. He is a
macroeconomist by training, joined the Bank in 1992 and worked in Anglophone African, Caribbean, and
South Asian countries on economic and sector analysis. In between, during 2001-03, he worked in the IMF.
He has published several papers, books, and monographs.
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Ouerghi, Azedine Azedine Ouerghi has about 25 years of professional experience of which over 20 years with the World Bank
group under various assignments across regions, in different country income levels and across sectors.
Azedine Ouerghi is currently in the Africa Region working on youth employment among other SP related
topics. He also led the social protection program in WBI overseeing and directly involved in the
development and delivery of the capacity development program and advisory services designed to support
Bank Operations and their clients in the areas of safety nets, labor market polices, pension reforms, and risk
and vulnerability. He also provided direct cross support to the Bank's Operation in social policy and strategy
formulation and safety nets interventions including for middle income countries on a Reimbursable
Technical Assistance basis. His key contribution to social policy formulation has been to ground the sectoral
policy in the overall macro and fiscal frameworks and to seek cross sectoral opportunities for Bank
interventions including social safety nets and Conditional Cash Transfers, youth and employment, micro-
finance and safety net interface, etc.
Azedine Ouerghi received his Ph.D. with special honor in production economics jointly from the "Institut
National des Sciences et Techniques Nucleaires" and Paris IV-Dauphine in 1986. Prior to joining the World
Bank he was fellow researcher in the French Atomic Energy Agency, taught in the "Institut National de la
Statistique" in Paris, and worked as economist in the Ministry of National Economy in Tunisia.
Pop, Lucian Lucian Pop joined the Safety Nets Team in August 2009. He first joined the Bank in 2005 as a Senior Social
Development Specialist in the Romania Country Office, where he was involved in investment projects,
policy-development lending, and analytical work in Romania as well as other countries in the ECA region.
Prior to joining the Bank he was a lecturer at the University of Bucharest and worked as a consultant for the
Bank, UNICEF, and DFID. His expertise areas include the design and implementation of safety net
programs, poverty analysis, and social programs evaluation. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the
University of Bucharest.
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Ramadan, Bassam Bassam Ramadan joined HDNSP as Sector Manager in October 2008. His career in the Bank spans 20 years
during which he worked across the three HD sector families, SP, education and health. He has spent a
number of years in country offices where he led the Bank‟s policy dialogue in cross-cutting economic and
sector issues, and delivered several lending, analytical, knowledge and learning products. Before joining
HDNSP, he held various positions in MENA and Africa. Bassam has frequently served for extended periods
as advisor to the Lebanese government on social policy, governance and international cooperation. His areas
of expertise are: development economics, agricultural policy, food security and safety nets. He holds a PhD
in economics from Cornell University.
Rawlings, Laura Laura B. Rawlings is a Lead Specialist for the Social Protection Network at the World Bank and the Program
Manager of the Spanish Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF), established in 2007 with a $14 million grant from
the Government of Spain. Laura‟s core responsibilities include promoting impact evaluations of social
sector programs to build a knowledge base on development effectiveness and to support the World Bank and
its clients in establishing more effective approaches to monitoring and evaluation. Previously, she worked as
Sector Leader for Human Development on Central America for the World Bank where she was responsible
for policy dialogue on social sector issues and for coordinating the World Bank‟s health, education and
social protection portfolio in the region. She has also worked in the World Bank‟s Development Research
Group on the evaluation of social programs and as a member of the Social Protection team in the Latin
American and Caribbean region where she was responsible for several research initiatives and projects in the
areas of conditional cash transfers, social funds and social protection systems. Prior to joining the World
Bank she worked for the Overseas Development Council. An economist by training, she has published books
and articles in the fields of evaluation and human development.
Ribe, Helena Helena Ribe is Sector Manager for Social Protection in the Latin America and Caribbean Region in the
World Bank. She manages a large program of loans, technical assistance and analytical studies in the region,
which includes several Conditional Cash Programs in Brazil, Colombia and Panama, among others.
Previously, she was a Sector Manager for Human Development in the Africa Region. She holds a PhD in
Economics from Yale University and a BA from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, her country of
origin.
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Skoufias, Emmanuel Emmanuel Skoufias is a Lead Economist at the PREM Poverty Reduction Group of the World Bank
(PRMPR) working on poverty and distributional issues. He has published more than 40 articles in various
academic journals on the targeting of poverty alleviation programs, the welfare impacts of the PROGRESA
program in Mexico, the role of public transfers in redistributing income in Latin America, land tenancy,
labor demand and supply, risk sharing, and household vulnerability. Emmanuel earned his Ph.D. in
Economics from the University of Minnesota (1988) and his B.A. degree in Economics from the University
of California at Berkeley (1981). His professional experience includes senior appointments at the Poverty
and Gender Group in the Latin American and Carribean Region of the World Bank, the Research
Department of the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI) where he led the evaluation of the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (PROGRESA) of the
Government of Mexico. Earlier academic experience includes appointments as an associate professor
appointment at the Economics Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and an assistant professor of Economics at
The Pennsylvania State University.
Subbarao, Kalanidhi Kalanidhi Subbarao is currently working as a consultant on social protection issues in the South Asia Region
of the World Bank. Previously, he was a Lead Economist and worked extensively on poverty analysis,
particularly in the domain of safety nets, and participated in numerous operations bearing on social
protection interventions. He is currently engaged in social protection operations and research in Nepal,
India, Bangladesh, Kenya and Rwanda. He is the main author of Safety Net Programs and Poverty
Reduction: Lessons from Cross-Country Experience (1997) and Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans: A
Framework for Public Action (2004) and several publications in various journals.
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Tesliuc, Emil Emil Tesliuc is Senior Economist in the World Bank‟s ECA region. He has extensive operational, research
and policy experience in the areas of safety nets and social risk management. He has written a number of
papers on poverty, vulnerability, and social protection. He is currently leading a comparative study of social
protection in transition economies. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Academy of Economic Studies
in Bucharest, and a master in public policy from Princeton University.
van Stolk, Chris Christian van Stolk is a Research Leader in the „Evaluation and Audit‟ team at RAND Europe, a public
policy research institute based in Cambridge, UK. He has worked extensively on social policy and
programme integrity and governance, particularly in the area of fraud in social security and tax systems. In
2006, he wrote a comparative study for the UK National Audit Office (NAO) on the occurrence of fraud in
international security systems. In 2007, again for the NAO, he contributed to a study on measuring the cost-
effectiveness of approaches to tackle fraud in the benefit system. He is an adviser to the World Bank on the
issue of error, fraud and corruption (EFC) in social security systems. In this capacity, he has contributed to
conference and distance learning modules on the topic for World Bank staff and client departments of the
World Bank and has been a member of study teams that have analysed the issue of EFC in the Ukraine,
Kyrgyzstan, and Bangladesh. He is currently working on a project for the Organisation of Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) looking at the sustainability of civil service reform in Central and
Eastern Europe, which incorporates issues of corruption and politicisation of administrations. He is also lead
author on the INSPIRE project for the Directorate General of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities at the European Commission looking at the future of social policy and protection in Europe.
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Yemtsov, Ruslan Ruslan Yemtsov is a Lead Economist in Social and Economic Development Group,
Middle East and North Africa Region, the World Bank. He was a professor at the Moscow State University
before joining the Word Bank as a consultant in 1993, and continued as a Young Professional since 1996.
Till 2007 he worked in the part of the World Bank which focuses on transition economies (Eastern Europe
and Central Asia Region, ECA, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector), coordinating the
work on poverty. He was a task team leader or team member of several poverty assessments (Georgia,
Armenia, Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina), regional
reports on poverty (latest entitled “Growth, Poverty and Inequality in ECA”), and operations (PRSCs and
structural adjustment credits in Serbia, Georgia and Macedonia, Social fund in Georgia, Croatia social
welfare development project). He published (as an author and as a co-author) journal articles, research papers
and chapters in monographs on labor markets, regional inequality and income distribution in Russia, on
poverty in Turkey, on welfare impact of infrastructure investment in Georgia, and on growth and social
mobility in Egypt. Since 2007 he is leading the work on poverty, labor market issues and social policy in
Egypt and Morocco, and regional activity to support subsidies reform and strengthening social protection in
MENA. He participated in the Global Task Force of Food Crisis (2008) and on Food Crisis Facility missions
to Djibouti and Egypt.
Zaman, Hassan Hassan Zaman is Lead Economist in the Poverty Reduction group of the World Bank and a member of the
Global Expert Team on safety nets. He joined the World Bank as a Young Professional in 1998 and
subsequently worked as a country economist in the Africa and South Asia regions, and as a team member of
micro-finance and social fund projects. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked for BRAC in Bangladesh for
four years, mainly on micro-finance issues. He has published work on economic growth, public
expenditures, food prices, poverty, education, safety nets and micro-finance in academic journals and books.
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