Hans Timmer
Uri Dadush
François Bourguignon
Richard Newfarmer
Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
Andrew Burns
Julia Nielson
Paul Brenton
Mombert Hoppe
Maurizio Bussolo Hans Timmer
Lead Economist, Manager Global Trends, Development Prospects Group
Hans Timmer, a Dutch national, is Lead Economist and Manager of the Global Trends team in the Bank's Development Prospects Group. Under his management, the Global Trends Team is responsible for authoring "Chapter One - Global Outlook and the Developing Countries" of this year's Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries. He is also responsible for short-term monitoring, medium-term forecasting and policy analysis and long-term scenario analysis of the global economy.
Before joining the Bank in May 2000, he was head of international economic analysis at Central Planning Bureau (CPB) for ten years. In this role, he supervised the development of two world models: a long-term model of the world economy, and an econometric medium-term model of OECD economies. 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. He has participated in international modeling groups like LINK and GTAP. Mr. Timmer studied Econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has been a researcher at the University of Lodz in Poland and at the Netherlands Economic Institute. Uri Dadush
Director of the World Bank's Development Prospects Group and International Trade Department
Uri Dadush, a French national, became Director of the International Trade Department of the World Bank in July 2002. This department provides a single venue for accountability for trade-related work in the institution. 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 financial markets and their implications for developing countries.
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 -1986. He has also worked as a 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, where he specialized in International Trade. François Bourguignon
World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics
Francois Bourguignon is internationally recognized as an intellectual leader in the economics of public policy, inequality and economic growth and development. He also has considerable practical experience of the World Bank and its interactions with developing countries and other partners. He became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank on October 6, 2003. Mr. Bourguignon had extensive practical experience of the World Bank and its interactions with developing countries and other partners, having previously served as Director of the Bank's Development Research Group, a part of the Development Economics Vice-Presidency. He has also been an advisor to many developing countries, the OECD, United Nations, European Commission, and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the French Prime Minister. Since 1985, he has been Professor of Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has been on leave from that institution since 2003. There he founded and directed the Département et Laboratoire d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (DELTA), a research unit in theoretical and applied economics. He has also held academic positions at the University of Chile, University of Toronto, and Bocconi University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and was president of the European Economic Association for Population Economics. He received the silver medal for academic achievements from the French National Centre of Scientific Research in 1999. He has authored or edited several books and over one hundred articles in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory and Journal for Development Economics. In addition to being the managing editor of the World Bank Economic Review from 2000-03, and European Economic Review (1990-2000), he has been an associate editor of several other important economic journals, including the Review of Economic Studies (1982-1987), Annales d'Economie et de Statistiques (1988-1991), and the Journal of Public Economics, (1991-1997). Mr. Bourguignon, a French national, studied at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique (ENSAE) and the University of Paris VI, where he earned a post-graduate degree in Applied Mathematics (1973). He went on to earn a Ph.D. and the Merrit Brown Award for the best thesis at the University of Western Ontario, Canada (1975), and a Doctorate in Economics at the University of Orleans (1979). More... Richard Newfarmer
Economic Adviser, International Trade Department and Prospects Group, World Bank
Richard Newfarmer is Economic Advisor in the International Trade Department and in the Prospects Group of the World Bank. Mr. Newfarmer is the editor of Trade, Doha, and Development: A Window into the Issues, a compendium of analyses of issues critical to the WTO trade round, regional free trade agreements, and "aid for trade". He was the lead author of the Global Economic Prospects 2005: Trade, Regionalism and Development as well as Global Economic Prospects 2004: Realizing the Development Promise of the Doha Agenda that analyzed key issues in the World Trade Organization's on-going negotiations. In the two previous years, he led the teams writing the Global Economic Prospects 2003: Investing to Unlock Global Opportunities that took up the investment and competition aspects of the WTO discussions, and Global Economic Prospects 2002: Making Trade Work for the World's Poor. He has worked in East Asia; he was a principal author of East Asia: Recovery and Beyond (2000) and East Asia: The Road to Recovery (1998), which analyzed the East Asian crisis of 1997-1998. Besides authoring numerous country studies at the World Bank on macroeconomic and public finance issues, Mr. Newfarmer has written on foreign direct investment, with publications in the Journal of World Trade, Eastern Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Development Economics and Foreign Policy, among others. He was Lead Economist in the Chief Economist's Office of East Asia during the Asia crisis (1997-2000), and before that he was the Lead Economist for the China and Mongolia Department from 1995 until July 1997. Prior to becoming Lead Economist, Mr. Newfarmer was Chief of the Industry and Energy Division in the China Department (1993-1995), where he supervised a program of lending in support of reforms to the power sector, among others. He was also Principal Economist for Argentina in the Latin American region (1988-1992) and has also worked on Chile, Brazil, and other Latin American countries. He joined the World Bank in 1983. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Newfarmer was a Senior Fellow at the Overseas Development Council, and served on the economics faculty at the University of Notre Dame.
Mr. Newfarmer holds a PhD and two MAs from the University of Wisconsin, and BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He also served on the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation's Advisory Group for the Third Symposium on Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade, and served on the Advisory Board for the Center for Global Development's Project on "Commitment to Development Index". Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
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. 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. Andrew Burns
Andrew Burns is a Lead Economist with the Development Prospects Group. He is the author of Chapter 1 in this year's Global Economic Prospects and contributes regularly to this publication and the sister publication Global Debvelopment 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. Julia Nielson
Julia Nielson is a Senior Trade Specialist in the International Trade Department of the World Bank. Prior to that she worked was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris working on trade in services issues. In 2004, she also worked with Ernesto Zedillo and Patrick Messerlin as a principal drafter of the report of Task Force 8 of the UN Millennium Development Goals Project on the contribution of the multilateral trading system and the Doha round to development. Prior to joining the OECD, Ms Nielson worked at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, serving as a member of the Australian Delegation to the WTO between 1996 and 1999. Paul Brenton
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. Mombert Hoppe
Mombert Hoppe works in the International Trade Department of the World Bank. He is a key member of the Department’s trade policy team. His interests lie particularly in the effects of regional integration and preferential trading agreements on economic growth, complementary domestic reforms to trade liberalization, and developments in the global market for apparel. Before joining the Trade Department, Mombert worked at the OECD and the European Commission, DG Development. He holds two master’s degrees in International and European Economics from Maastricht University and the Institute of European Studies in Brussels. Maurizio Bussolo
At the World Bank since March 2003, Maurizio Bussolo is working on quantitative analyses of economic policy and development, including studies of the links between trade, growth and poverty. Among his other activities, he monitors and forecasts economic trends in Latin America and contributes to the World Bank’s Millennium Development Goals modelling effort. Before joining the World Bank, he worked at the OECD Development Centre and was previously research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London, and before economist at Fedesarrollo and lecturer at the University Los Andes in Bogotá Colombia. He has published in international journals and his recent publications include: “Globalization and poverty: Channels and Policies” Routledge (London 2006) book jointly edited with Jeff Round.
He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Warwick, UK.
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