Hanneke van Tilburg is the World Bank’s acting Regional Safeguard Advisor for Africa, responsible for advice on and oversight of environmental and social due diligence across the World Bank’s multi-billion portfolio in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked for the European Commission, the Dutch Government, and the private sector. Hanneke has over twenty years of…
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Victor Mosoti is Senior Counsel in the International and Environmental Law Unit within the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. He is also Legal Adviser to Water Global Practice. Prior to this, he worked at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy and at the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. In his current role, he advises on the…
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Afshan Khawaja is the Manager of Environmental and Social Standards in the Operational Policy Vice Presidency of the World Bank. She manages the team working on the review and update of the Bank’s safeguard policies as well as providing policy and operational guidance to Bank management and staff, as the corporate advisor on social safeguard policies, on issues of social risks especially those…
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Bilal (Bill) Rahill is Director, Environment & Natural Resources (ENR) Global Practice of the World Bank Group. The ENR Global Practice supports the Bank’s mission of sustainable poverty alleviation by helping countries factor in the value of natural resources in their development trajectory. This involves investments and analytical work in the following areas: Forests, Watersheds and…
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Maninder S. Gill is Director for the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience (SURR) Global Practice at the World Bank Group since July, 2014. In this position, Mr. Gill leads the Practice’s engagement in social development– an increasingly important part of the Bank Group’s work in inclusive and sustainable development. Mr. Gill joined the Bank in 1995 and earlier in his career, he worked in the…
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Alberto Cavallo is the Douglas Drane Career Development Professor of Information Technology and Management and an Associate Professor of Applied Economics in the Sloan School of Management at MIT, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Technical Advisory Committees of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the United Kingdom Office for…
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Alexis Antoniades is an Associate Professor of Economics at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. A Fulbright/CASP scholar, he holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. Between 2001 and 2002, he worked as an Assistant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research focuses on international economics and the economies of the Gulf. Alexis has been…
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Jim Thomas is an Economist, with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, responsible for overseeing the monthly collection of prices and calculation of U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes, a U.S. Principal Federal Economic Indicator (PFEI). He has worked on numerous technical assistance missions to develop price indices in the Caribbean particularly Anguilla, Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis…
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Jan Walschots is a Senior Statistical Researcher at Statistics Netherlands. In his early years at Statistics Netherlands, he worked on the Labour Force Survey where he developed the first computerized questionnaire where the interviewer made use of a handheld computer. After working in several other departments, he joined the CPI team in 1998 and was much involved in issues of methodology,…
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Joe Reisinger is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Premise, a mobile technology platform orchestrating the collection of micro-data for precise and robust economic measurement. At Premise, Joe leads the engineering and data science teams responsible for core survey optimization and planning, econometrics and indicator design, as well as developing new approaches to early…
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