Expertise
Development; Global governance; Central and Eastern European transition; Transatlantic economic relations
Background
Past Positions
Vice President, Europe and Central Asia, the World Bank; Vice President, Financial Policy and Resource Mobilization, the World Bank; Director, Country Policy Department and International Economics Department, the World Bank; Senior Economic Advisor to Vice President and Chief Economist, the World Bank; Staff Director, World Development Report, 1988, the World Bank; Senior Departmental Economist, East Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank; Senior Country Economist, Thailand Country Division, the World Bank; Lecturer, Department of Economics, Cornell University
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1972; B.A., Oxford University, 1968
"The benefit of having a global steering group [such as the G-20], especially in times of crisis like today, is that it provides a visible locus of deliberation and decision making at the highest level. This can inspire confidence that effective action will be taken. It can help ensure that the often slow and ponderous machinery of the formal international institutions is jumpstarted and takes action with deliberate speed."