The Report was prepared by the International Finance Team of the Development Prospects Group of the World Bank but drew on resources throughout the Development Economics Vice-Presidency, the World Bank operational regions, the International Finance Corporation, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. The lead author of the was Philip Suttle, with direction from Uri Dadush. The Report was prepared under the general direction of former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President Nicholas Stern. Core team members and chapter authors were: Philip Suttle was the Manager of the International Finance team of the Development Prospects Group until July 2003, and was responsible for the overall work program. He was the lead author of the Global Development Finance 2003: Striving for Stability in Development Finance. He joined the World Bank in January 2002 from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he had worked through 2001. Between 1988 and 2001, Mr. Suttle worked at JP Morgan, where he carried out a wide array of macroeconomic research. Dilek Aykut is an Economist for the International Finance Team of the Development Prospects Group. She collaborates with colleagues on FDI issues in the World Bank and other institutions such as the IMF, OECD, and UNCTAD. Her recent research includes estimation of South-South FDI flows and determinants of FDI flows to developing countries. Previous experience in the World Bank includes work with the PREM Network. Dilek Aykut holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Bogazici University in Instanbul and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. Mansoor Dailami is Lead Economist for the International Finance Team of the Development Prospects Group. Since joining the Bank in 1986, he has served in team leader capacity at the WBI and in the South Asia region, where he also headed the Economic Unit of the Bank's India Country Office. Before joining the Bank, he worked at the United Nations Secretariat in New York, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and New York University. Mr. Dailami degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard University. 
Himmat Kalsi is a Senior Financial Economist in the International Finance Team. His responsibilities include monitoring emerging market finance in all sectors of capital markets and analyzing prospects and risks that can potentially effect such financing. He writes extensively on topical issues related to debt, investor risk aversion, creditworthiness, demand and supply of capital, linkages between primary and secondary markets, risk premiums and pricing dynamics, and structured financing, including that for trade and infrastructure. He maintains relations with a network of participants in capital markets. In addition, he serves as an institutional anchor for resource and information on capital flows, debt, domestic and international financial markets, and country creditworthiness. He was a member of the World Bank’s former International Debt and Finance Division. Mr. Kalsi holds a Master’s degree in Economics, a Master of Business Administration in Finance, and a diploma in Chartered Accountancy. Eung Ju Kim is a Research Analyst for the International Finance team. His work focuses on monitoring trends in private capital flows and infrastructure and preparing commercial debt restructuring appendix and capital flow forecasting for the annual Global Development Finance Report. He provides a diversified set of data and analytics for senior management briefings and has prepared several briefing notes on a variety of issues associated with FDI trends, Brady bonds, Infrastructure finance, and international bond markets. He also worked on several cross-support projects, including lending review & strategy paper (“Demand for World Bank Lending”), the policy note on the International Development Goal for poverty reduction, and strategic directions paper for SRMVP (Middle-income Countries Task Force Report). Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Kim worked as a Research Assistant with The Prudential Securities, Inc. Mr. Kim holds a Master's in Corporate Finance from the Catholic University of America. Sanket Mohapatra is an Economist in the International Monetary Fund’s Africa Department, covering Comoros, Central African Republic, Zambia and Zimbabwe). Prior to joining the IMF, he worked as a Consultant in the World Bank’s newly created Debt Department and the International Finance Team of the Development Prospects Group. Mr. Mohapatra co-authored the GDF chapter on Corporate Financial Structures and Performance in Developing Countries. He holds an M.Phil. degree from the Department of Economics at Columbia University, an M.A. from the Delhi School of Economics and is currently completing his Ph.D. at the Department of Economics at Columbia University. Dilip Ratha a Senior Economist, writes topical chapters in the Global Development Finance reports, monitors global capital markets, and prepares medium-term forecasts of capital flows to developing countries. Prior Bank assignments include sovereign risk analysis in FINCR, and state enterprise reforms in China in the research department. Work experience outside the Bank includes positions as Asia Regional Economist, Credit Agricole Indosuez; Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Economist, The Policy Group, New Delhi; and Lecturer, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.
Elliot (Mick) Riordan is a Senior Economist for the Global Trends Team of the Development Prospects Group, providing forecast analysis for the group’s products and publications. He has participated in studies on topics of global importance such as Iraq, and oil prices, which support the Bank’s Regional efforts to better understand the global context. Before joining the Bank, he was Director of International Consulting for the WEFA Group (now Global Insights), and was also involved in foreign exchange advisory work, and large-scale projects in contract consulting. Mick Riordan holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (1981), and a BSc in International Business from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1977). William Shaw retired in 2004 as Lead Economist for the International Finance Team of the Development Prospects Group and is currently working with the group as the principal author of the Global Economic Prospects 2006 Report. He has also worked in Regional Operations on Bolivia, Tanzania, and private sector development issues in the Caribbean. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Shaw worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Mr. Shaw holds a Ph.D. from George Washington University. Hans Timmer is Lead Economist and Manager of the Global Trends Team in the Development Prospects Group. Before joining the Bank in May 2000, he was head of international economic analysis at the Central Planning Bureau (CPB) for ten years. He has had vast experience working with the European Commission, IPCC and the OECD, as well as with the Indian Planning Commission and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; and has participated in international modeling groups such as LINK and GTAP. Hans Timmer studied Econometrics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam and has been a researcher at the University of Lodz in Poland and at the Netherlands Economic Institute.
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