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| ROGER MANRING |
| Roger Manring, Senior
Vice President at Nathan Associates,
has been involved in consultancies
in the United States and more than
40 countries over the past 25 years.
His technical expertise covers applied
economic and financial analysis, strategic
planning, project development, and
privatization in several sectors.
He has also performed detailed economic
policy appraisals in post-conflict
situations. In the UN-sponsored negotiations
for settlement of the Cyprus Problem
(2004), for example, he was Chairman
of the UN’s Technical Committee
on Economic and Financial Aspects
of Implementation of the proposed
Annan Plan. Under Mr. Manring’s
leadership, Greek Cypriot and Turkish
Cypriot negotiators and international
experts addressed issues ranging from
property settlement to banking, trade
and investment, and public finance
in a unified Cyprus economy. This
service built on several earlier economic
analyses that Mr. Manring prepared
for Cyprus peacemakers.
More recently, Mr. Manring was principal
author and analyst for a comprehensive
study of foreign direct investment
(FDI) in the developing world. Foreign
Direct Investment: Putting it to Work
in Developing Countries, prepared
for USAID, reviews the benefits and
costs of FDI in developing economies,
and evaluates FDI trends, drivers
and future directions, including issues
developing countries face in attracting
FDI.
Mr. Manring directed Nathan Associates’
international consulting operations
between 1992 and 2000, with full responsibility
for the performance of the firm’s
International Group. During this time,
he also managed large-scale consulting
assignments and continues in this
latter role today. He holds an A.B.
in Government from Bowdoin College,
an M.I.A. in Economic Development
from Columbia University, and an M.A.
in Economics from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University. |
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| MARIO MANSOUR |
| Mario Mansour is a Senior
Economist in the Tax Policy Division
of the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department.
His work covers a wide range of issues
in the tax policy area, including: leading
and participating in missions to IMF
member countries to advise on tax policy
and administration; contributing to
internal IMF policy papers; and undertaking
research on policy practices in IMF
member countries. Prior to joining the
IMF, Mr. Mansour worked for a Canadian
consultancy from 2000 to 2004, where
he played a lead role in tax reform
projects in the Middle East and Eastern
Caribbean islands. Between 1992 and
2000, Mr. Mansour worked as an Economist
in the Tax Policy Branch of the Canadian
Department of Finance. He contributed
to the work of the Technical Committee
on Business Taxation (the Mintz Committee),
which led to a general reform of the
Canadian federal business tax system
at the end of the 1990s.
Mr. Mansour holds an MA in Economics
from the Université de Montréal
(1992) and an MBA from the University
of Ottawa (1998).
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| HEATHER McHUGH |
| Heather McHugh has 17
years of international experience in
the strategic planning, implementation,
management, program evaluation, and
policy analysis of international development
programs, especially conflict-related
responses. She is a thought leader in
media, conflict management, civil society,
and community mobilization in conflict
and transition environments, with a
focus on large complex regional and
multi-regional programs. Ms. McHugh
provides technical assistance to U.S.
government agencies that focuses on
interagency collaboration. She has managed
humanitarian operations, and has worked
with Fortune 50 companies, public affairs
firms, nonprofit organizations, and
management consulting companies. She
currently serves as Technical Backstop
for the Liberia Community Infrastructure
Project (LCIP), Task Order Manager for
LCIP II, and Task Order Manager for
BRDG-Liberia. |
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| JOHN W. MELLOR |
| John W. Mellor is
President of John Mellor Associates,
a policy consulting firm. He was previously
Vice-President of Abt Associates.
He was the founding Director of the
International Food Policy Research
Institute; Chief Economist of USAID;
and Professor at Cornell University
– in Economics, Agricultural
Economics, and Asian Studies. He has
been a Visiting Professor at Balwant
Rajput College, the Indian Agricultural
Research Institute, and the American
University, Beirut. He has led numerous
missions for USAID projects, international
financial institutions, and foundations.
He was awarded the Presidential Hunger
Award (the White House USA) and the
Wihuri Prize (Finland) for his work
in reducing hunger in the world. He
has won numerous prizes from professional
associations for the quality of his
research work on development. These
include prizes for best research and
for research of continuing importance
for his seminal book on the economics
of agricultural development. He is
author of eight other books and numerous
journal articles.
Mellor is an elected fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and the American Agricultural
Economics Association. He received
Fulbright, Social Science Research
Council, Rockefeller Foundation and
Agricultural Development Council fellowships.
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| MICHELE MOLONEY-KITTS |
| Michele Moloney-Kitts
is a foreign service officer and a nurse
midwife who has worked extensively domestically
and, for the past 15 years, internationally
in the area of women’s and children’s
health and HIV/AIDS. Domestically, she
launched one of the first HIV programs
for pregnant women in the city of Philadelphia.
Internationally, she has directed programs
in HIV/AIDS and Maternal Child Health
that have provided assistance to over
80 countries. She has served as a Foreign
Service officer in Morocco, Cambodia
and South Africa. In Cambodia she led
the development one of the first HIV/AIDS
programs with NGOs and the government
in Cambodia. She has recently returned
from South Africa where she served as
the senior technical advisor for HIV/AIDS
for USAID’s Southern Africa regional
program, working to strengthen HIV programs
across 10 countries in the most affected
part of the world. She now works in
Washington with Ambassador Mark Dybul
in the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator
where she serves as chief of the Program
Services Division. In this capacity
she is responsible for oversight of
implementation of the President’s
Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS in the fifteen
focus countries and other bilateral
programs and coordinating technical
assistance for international HIV/AIDS
across the U.S. Government implementing
agencies. |
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FABIO NEHME |
| Fabio Nehme’s career
has been dedicated to the development
of new energy markets in developing
countries. As an Officer at IFC’s
Sustainability Innovation Group, an
internal incubator with over $200 million
in programs supporting clean energy
companies and markets in developing
countries, Fabio currently leads a number
of IFC initiatives related to renewable
energy, clean technologies, and energy
efficiency in Asia, Africa and Latin
America. Among other initiatives, he
has developed the project Lighting Africa,
a World Bank Group initiative that tries
to innovate by leveraging the large-private
sector support to increase sustainable
access to modern, off-grid energy services
in Africa.
Prior to IFC, Fabio was a manager
at the global energy unit of Alcoa,
the global aluminum group. He advised
Alcoa, as well as global banks and
energy investors, on energy infrastructure
investments in developing countries.
In addition, he advised governments
on issues related to energy sector
regulation and attracting private
investments to the energy sector.
Prior to Alcoa, Fabio worked in the
financial sector, working with multinationals
in corporate and structured finance.
He holds an MBA from IMD (Switzerland),
an M.A. in International Policy from
SAIS (Johns Hopkins), and is a Certified
Energy Manager by the American Association
of Energy Engineers.
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