GEP 2005 Core Team members The principal author of the report was Richard Newfarmer, under the direction of Uri Dadush. The report was prepared under general guidance of World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President François Bourguignon. Members of the GEP 2006 team were:
Paul Brenton is a Senior Economist in the Trade Department. He contributes to the Department's work on trade policy analysis and advice, with a particular interest in the economic impact of trade policies and trade liberalization, trade preferences for developing countries, regional integration, rules of origin, and the role of regulations in influencing international trade and investment flows. He was task team leader for the Rwanda Diagnostic Trade Integration Study and has contributed to numerous country trade studies for the Bank, including those for Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kenya, Mauritius, Moldova, and Sierra Leone. He joined the Bank in August 2002, having been Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Trade Policy Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of East Anglia. Fernando Martel GarcÃa  is an Economist in the Development Prospects Group, participating in macroeconomic monitoring and forecasting activities. He is the Task Manager of the new Global Outlook online publication, which is a part of this year’s Global Economic Prospects 2005. Before joining the Bank, he worked at the US Treasury Department’s Office for Industrialized Nations and Global Analyses. He has also worked for the Government Relations Office of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, UK; and the European Commission’s External Relations Directorate General. Fernando Martel holds an M.A., with distinction, in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He also holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University. 
 Denis Medvedev is a consultant with the Development Prospects Group. His responsibilities include working on international trade issues and the Millennium Development Goals. He has worked on Global Economic Prospects 2003 and 2004, and was previously a consultant at the IFC. Denis Medvedev holds a Ph.D. from American University. Sherman Robinson is a Professor at the University of Sussex in England. From 1993-2004 he was an Institute Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Before joining IFPRI in 1993 as Director of the Trade and Macroeconomics Division, he was a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has held visiting senior-staff appointments at the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; the U.S. Congressional Budget Office; and the President's Council of Economic Advisers (in the Clinton administration). In the U.S. government, he worked extensively on trade issues, including the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He was also a Division Chief in the Research Department of the World Bank, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University, and a Lecturer in Economics at the London School of Economics. He is an international authority in the area of policy-oriented general equilibrium modeling. At IFPRI, he has applied these and other tools to the analysis of policy issues related to international trade, macroeconomic policy, agricultural development, intersectoral linkages, income distribution, and poverty.
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