Core Team

This report was prepared by the Development Prospects Group (DECPG). Dilip Ratha and William Shaw were co-Task Managers of this report. It was prepared under the direction of Uri Dadush, Director, DECPG, and the general guidance of François Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank.

Members of the GEP 2006 team were:

Dilip Ratha

William Shaw

Andrew Burns

Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

Irena Omelaniuk

Prabal De

Maddalena Honorati

Dilip Ratha, is a Senior Economist in the World Bank and a lead author of Global Economic Prospects 2006: Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration, a flagship annual publication of the World Bank. An expert on remittances and on future flow securitization, he has written on a range of international finance topics including country risk rating and South-South foreign direct investment. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a regional economist for Asian emerging markets at Credit Agricole Indosuez, and as an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. 

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 co-task manager of the Global Economic Prospects 2006 report on "International Remittances and Migration." 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.

Andrew Burns is a Senior Economist with the Development Prospects Group. He is involved with the production, drafting and communication of the Global Economic Outlook, the World Bank's twice yearly world forecast published in Global Economic Prospects and Global Development Finance. Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Burns worked with the OECD where he was Head of Desk for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and France. His principal responsibilities included supervising and writing the OECD's Economic Surveys for these countries. He also played a lead role in the OECD's Jobs Study, supervising the evaluation of labor market policies in each of the organization's 30 member countries. Mr. Burns holds degrees from the University of Manitoba and McGill University in Canada.

Dominique van der Mensbrugghe is a Lead Economist for the Development Prospects Group. His main responsibilities include developing scenarios on long-term economic prospects for developing countries and undertaking detailed trade policy analysis. Before joining the World Bank, he worked for a decade at the OECD Development Centre. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Louvain University in Belgium.

Irena Omelaniuk is working with the Development Prospects Group on a one-year secondment from International Organization for Migration (IOM)as Advisor on Migration. In addition to providing inputs to our forthcoming Global Economic Prospects 2006 on migration, Irena will explore new forms of cooperation between the Bank and IOM. Irena has worked in the IOM in Geneva for 10 years, mainly as the Head of Technical Cooperation on Migration, but also on posting as Chief of Mission to Germany in 1997-2000. Her last position in IOM was Director, Migration Management Services, with responsibility for overall planning and development of global projects in the areas of Counter Trafficking, Labour Migration, Technical Cooperation, Information, Return and Integration. In the past year, she has also worked as the Editor-in-Chief of IOM's flagship publication World Migration 2005, due to be published in April 2005. Prior to IOM, she was an official with the Australian Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), with postings to Mexico/Central America and Washington. She has worked with a number of governments on migration policy, legislation and practices; and overseen the planning of international workshops and training programs on migration management.

Prabal Kumar De was a consultant with the International Finance team of the Development Prospects Group.  He provided research assistance on this year’s Global Economic Prospects report, particularly on chapters 4, 5 and 6 dealing with various aspects of the economic implications of international remittances.  Prabal is currently working on his Ph.D. in Economics at New York University.  He holds an MA in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India.

Uri Dadush  is a French national, became Director of the International Trade Department in July 2002. This department provides a single venue for accountability for trade-related work in the World Bank.  In this position, Mr. Dadush is also responsible for managing the Development Prospects Group. This Group is responsible for analysis and projections of the world economy and its implications for developing countries, including the trends in capital flows and prices of primary commodities. Mr. Dadush was previously Chair of the Economic Policy Sector Board and Director of Economic Policy. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr. Dadush was President of the Economist Intelligence Unit, part of The Economist Group, from 1986 to 1992.   He was Group Vice President, International, for Data Resources, Inc., from 1982 -1996. He has also served as a senior consultant with McKinsey and Co. in Italy and Denmark. Mr. Dadush received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from Hebrew University and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.

Maddalena Honorati is a consultant with the International Finance team of the Development Prospects Group.  She provided research assistance on this year’s Global Economic Prospects report, particularly on chapters 4, 5 and 6 dealing with various aspects of the economic implications of international remittances.  Maddalena is currently working on her Ph.D. in Economics at Universita Bocconi in Milan, Italy and most recently was a visiting scholar at the Economics Department and the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.