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 G-20 is establishing itself as a forum, taking responsibility for global macroeconomic policy as an instrument of public policy for the public good. It is asserting stewardship of the global financial system on behalf of the public interest . . and . . becoming the driver of international institutional reform."