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| H.E.
ANWAR-UL-HAQ AHADY |
| H.E.
Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady is Minister
of Finance for the Government of the
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. |
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| DR. RAVE AULAKH |
| Dr. Rave Aulakh is a senior
macro economist in USAID/EGAT’s
Office of Economic Growth and is the
CTO for USAID’s worldwide Fiscal
Reform and Economic Governance Project
and Country Analytical Reports. During
the previous twenty plus years with
the Agency she has served mainly in
USAID field missions in Nigeria and
Bangladesh, where she was the office
director and the chief economist for
the Mission. She also served in Sudan
as an Economist. In the field posts
she has a wide range of experience designing,
implementing, and evaluating programs
and projects addressing a wide range
of macro and multi-sectoral policy issues,
including privatization, fiscal and
trade reform. |
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| RICHARD AUTY |
| Richard Auty, Professor
Emeritus of Economic Geography at Lancaster
University, has advised many multi-and
bilateral agencies on economic development
issues. He previously taught at Dartmouth
College and the University of Guyana.
Research interests include industrial
policy and rent cycling theory. Recent
publications include Energy Wealth and
Governance in the Caucasus and Central
Asia (Routledge), co-edited with I.
de Soysa, Resource Abundance and Economic
Development (Oxford University Press),
and Rent Cycling Theory, the Resource
Curse, and Development Policy (DAI,
2007). |
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| JUAN A. B. BELT |
| Juan A. B. Belt, an economist
and Senior Foreign Service Officer,
is the Director of USAID’s Infrastructure
and Engineering Office. Besides managing
the Office, he has been personally involved
in the evaluation of the Government
of Egypt’s strategy for information
and communications technology (ICT);
the design of a program in Colombia
to provide rural connectivity using
wireless technologies; and support for
energy reforms in Colombia, Honduras
and Nicaragua. As a Principal Economist
at the Inter-American Development Bank
(IDB) from 1998 to 2004, he was the
team leader for projects in several
countries of the Caribbean and Andean
regions covering telecommunications,
ICT, transport and power sectors, as
well as finance and secured transactions.
From 1983 to 1998 at USAID, he was
Chief Economist of the Global Bureau,
Deputy Director in Guatemala (1995-97),
and head of economics offices in USAID
missions in El Salvador (1992-95),
Costa Rica (1989-92) and Panama (1983-86).
While head of these offices he worked
mainly on trade issues, privatization,
macroeconomics, public finance and
state modernization. He designed the
budget support program for Grenada
in the aftermath of the U.S. intervention.
During the U.S. intervention in Panama,
he was responsible for designing a
$110 million lender of last resort
mechanism that permitted the unfreezing
of commercial bank deposits. In both
Guatemala and El Salvador, he worked
on the design and implementation of
programs to facilitate the peace process,
including the reform and privatization
of the power and telecommunications
sectors.
Prior to his work at USAID, he worked
for the World Bank in Latin America,
Europe and Africa. He worked mainly
on the design of agricultural and
natural resource projects, and on
the development of national strategies
for those sectors. He studied economics
at Georgetown, American and Cornell,
and has taught economics at universities
in the U.S. and Latin America. |
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| RODNEY BENT |
| Rodney Bent is Deputy
Chief Executive Officer for the Millennium
Challenge Corporation (MCC). As Deputy
CEO, Mr. Bent manages the day-to-day
operations of agency. He previously
served as MCC’s Vice President
for Policy and International Relations.
Prior to joining MCC in November
of 2005, Mr. Bent was a professional
staff member of the House Appropriations
Committee, where he recommended appropriation
levels and policies for USAID programs,
the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, and
the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
From 2003-04 he served as the Senior
Advisor to the Ministry of Finance
and Ministry of Planning and the Director
of the Office of Management and Budget
for the Coalition Provisional Authority
(C.P.A.) in Baghdad, Iraq. As Senior
Advisor he helped to build the capacities
of the Iraqi Ministry of Finance and
Ministry of Planning to manage fiscal
policy and international donor contributions.
He was awarded the Secretary of Defense
Medal for Exceptional Public Service.
Mr. Bent spent 20 years at the U.S.
Office of Management and Budget and
was promoted to Deputy Associate Director
for the International Affairs Division
in 1998. Mr. Bent has also held positions
at Bankers Trust Company and at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. He
received an M.B.A. from Cornell University,
an M.A. from the Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy, and an A.B. in
History from Cornell University. |
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| LORI A. BITTNER |
| Lori A. Bittner is a financial
sector specialist with over 20 years
of experience working in both developed
and emerging market countries. As a
Managing Director in the Financial Sector
Strengthening division of BearingPoint’s
Emerging Markets area, Ms. Bittner has
responsibility for a portfolio of international
reform projects and teams of advisors
living around the world. She is involved
in the day-to-day management of programs
from the initial design and staffing
phases through project execution. She
has overseen projects and worked in
over twenty countries throughout Eastern
and Central Europe, Latin America, the
Middle East and Central Asia including
many of the post conflict regions.
Ms. Bittner is currently Engagement
Director for our USAID programs in
Afghanistan. These programs are involved
in Capacity Development across the
public, private, and university sectors
as well as in Government reform and
strengthening to promote sound economic
and financial policy and growth. Our
programs work across multiple Ministries
and Agencies including Finance, Education,
Agriculture, Commerce, Communications
and the Central Bank. The in-country
team is comprised of over 100 expatriate
advisors and over 200 local Afghanistan
employees.
Ms. Bittner has been with BearingPoint,
Inc. for over twelve years. Prior
to joining BearingPoint she worked
for the Office of the Comptroller
of the Currency (U.S. Treasury) for
ten years as a Commissioned National
Bank Examiner. As a Bank Examiner
she was responsible for the supervision
of nationally chartered banks in the
Eastern United States. She ensured
the safety and soundness of banks
ranging in size and complexities including
many of the nation’s largest
companies.
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| BRUCE BOLNICK |
| Bruce Bolnick is Chief
Economist for the International Group
at Nathan Associates. At Nathan, Dr.
Bolnick served as Chief of Party for
the initial Country Analytical Support
(CAS) project, and directed a variety
of other USAID-funded programs. His
recent technical work includes an assessment
of the World Bank’s Doing Business
methodology for Time to Trade; a study
of financial sector constraints on private
sector development in Mozambique; an
assessment of USAID’s economic
growth program in Sri Lanka, as well
as CAS reports on Sri Lanka, the Philippines,
and Zimbabwe.
Before joining Nathan, Dr. Bolnick
was a Fellow at the Kennedy School
at Harvard and a Senior Associate
at the Harvard Institute of International
Development. He has worked overseas
for more than 12 years in Africa and
Asia. As Chief of Party for Harvard’s
Capacity Building for Economic Decision
Making Project in Mozambique, he helped
the government formulate growth and
poverty reduction strategies. As Chief
of Party for the Malawi Economic Management
and Reform Project, he helped the
Reserve Bank develop and implement
a financial programming model for
monetary management. As senior advisor
to the Ministry of Finance in Zambia,
he helped the government design a
comprehensive tax reform program and
improve fiscal-monetary coordination.
Dr. Bolnick has taught economics
at the University of Nairobi, Duke
University, Northeastern University,
the Harvard University (Kennedy School),
and Brandeis University. He has written
dozens of professional publications
on economic development. Dr. Bolnick
has a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale
University. |
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| KAROL BOUDREAUX |
Karol Boudreaux is
a senior research fellow at the Mercatus
Center. She is also the lead researcher
for Enterprise Africa!, a research
project that is investigating, analyzing,
and reporting on enterprise-based
solutions to poverty in Africa. In
addition, she teaches a course on
law and international development
at George Mason University. Ms. Boudreaux’s
main areas of interest include property
rights and development, human rights,
and international law. The current
focus of her research is contemporary
Africa and the ways in which particular
institutional arrangements have either
helped or hindered human flourishing
and economic development on the continent.
Ms. Boudreaux is a member of the Working
Group on Property Rights of the U.N.’s
Commission on Legal Empowerment of
the Poor.
Before joining the Mercatus staff,
Ms. Boudreaux was assistant dean at
George Mason University’s School
of Law. She taught for four years
at Clemson University in the legal
studies department, and she also served
as director of programs at the Foundation
for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson,
NY.
Ms. Boudreaux earned her BA in English
literature from Rutgers University
(Douglass College) and her JD from
the University of Virginia’s
School of Law. |
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| ANNETTE BROWN |
| Annette Brown joined Chemonics
in 2007 as Director of Impact Measurement,
for which she conducts a variety of
impact measurement and impact evaluation
activities across all practices and
regions. Her technical expertise includes
several fields of economics and development
such as tax policy and modeling, government
institutional reform, think tank development,
policy analysis training, macroeconomic
and poverty alleviation policies, competition
regulation, and monitoring and evaluation.
In addition, she has conducted research
in the economics fields of labor, industrial
organization, and international trade.
She served as a resident advisor in
Armenia, where she advised senior Ministry
of Finance officials, and has completed
numerous short-term assignments in more
than a dozen countries across Europe
and Eurasia, Africa, and Asia. In her
previous position at the Urban Institute,
Dr. Brown oversaw all aspects of program
management and development for the Institute’s
international technical assistance and
research portfolio. She has a Ph.D.
in economics from the University of
Michigan and has also held positions
at BearingPoint Inc., Western Michigan
University, and the World Bank. |
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| JOHN W. BRUCE |
| John W. Bruce has worked
on land policy and law in developing
countries for forty years, primarily
in Africa. He began work on land tenure
in the late 1960s as a Peace Corps legal
advisor to the Ministry of Land Reform
in Ethiopia and later did research for
his legal doctorate on customary land
tenure in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
He spent five years in Sudan as the
Ford Foundation’s representative
in the 1970s, teaching Property at the
Faculty of Law of the University of
Khartoum and coordinating the Faculty’s
Sudan Customary Law Research Project.
He returned to the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1980, serving as African Program
Coordinator and then Director of the
Land Tenure Center, an interdisciplinary
research center working on land tenure
issues in developing countries. In 1996
he left the University to join the Legal
Department of the World Bank, where
he served as Senior Counsel (Land Law),
and also as the land tenure expert for
the Bank’s Rural Development Department.
He retired from the World Bank in 2006
and now heads a small consulting firm,
Land and Development Solutions International.
He has worked on land tenure issues
widely in Africa and East Asia, and
has published extensively on land policy
and law, most recently Land Law Reform:
Achieving Development Policy Objectives
(World Bank, 2006) and Land and Business
Formalization for Legal Empowerment
of the Poor, Strategic Overview Paper
(ARD for USAID, 2007). He holds a B.A.
in International Relations from Lafayette
College, a JD from Columbia University
Law School and an SJD from the Law School
of the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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