For twenty-seven years, David has facilitated consensus building on complex public and organizational issues internationally and in the U.S. His primary focus is building effective multi-stakeholder partnerships, strategies, programs and dispute resolution systems to meet challenges of sustainable development. He works extensively with national governments, multilateral agencies, global and…
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Heather’s research interests include the politics of leadership, the role of leadership in developmental change processes, and the relationship between research, evidence and policy. She has a chapter forthcoming, written with the late Adrian Leftwich, on “Leadership and the politics of development” in the Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development. Heather has been a part of DLP for almost a…
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Jim leads the department that focuses on public sector reform. He has been engaged on public management and economic reform at state, national and international levels for more than thirty years, having worked for the Treasury of the state of Victoria in Australia, the Treasury of New Zealand, the OECD, the IMF and since 2007, at the World Bank. He returned to World Bank headquarters in…
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Herman works on multi-stakeholder engagement for sustainable and inclusive agriculture. He advises, trains and coaches professionals across sectorial boundaries on how to contribute to sustainable development through collaboration. As an accredited PBA partnership broker, Herman is supporting local and global partnerships, mainly in food security and natural resource management, in more than 25…
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Edouard has worked at the World Bank since 2001, first in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Unit, then at the World Bank Institute, where he worked on governance and anticorruption diagnostics and empirics, and led the Political Economy team. From 2012 to 2015, he was the Senior Governance Specialist for Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, based in Cairo. He is the lead author of “Rules on Paper…
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Ms. Brown is the acting deputy assistant administrator in USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance. She has more than 20 years of experience with USAID and the U.S. Department of State on a wide range of democracy and governance, conflict mitigation and fragile states initiatives. Prior to her current position, she was the director of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict…
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Ms. Valtonen is a Senior Adviser for Democracy and Governance at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. She has long-term experience in promoting good governance, transparency and accountability, working with budget support, public financial management reform programs and supporting civil society. Valtonen has twelve years of experience of working in Southern and Eastern Africa and Central…
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Dr. Thampi has served as Consultant and Governance Advisor in about 20 countries across Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, West Asia, and Eastern Europe with development partners, state institutions, public agencies, and civil society organizations focusing on issues of governance and government reform, public accountability, and capacity building. He was previously Head of the Asia…
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Ms. Mends is a Chief Economics Officer of the Ministry of Finance and Group Head for Public Financial Management Reforms, and also leads the Social Protection Team at the Ministry of Finance. This year marks her 25 year at the Ministry. She has the responsibility of leading the implementation of the Medium Term Public Financial Management (PFM) Strategy of government.
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Mr. Momodu Kargbo is the Minister of Finance and Economic Development of Sierra Leone, and Chair of the g7+ Group of Fragile States. Prior to his appointment as Minister of finance, Minister Kargbo served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Sierra Leone and is credited to have significantly improved Foreign Exchange and Reserve Management. In his previous term at the Ministry of Finance and…
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