Team

Shaida Badiee
Director, Development Data Group
Shaida Badiee directs the unit that produces the Bank’s statistical products, with her work focused on economic information and systems to gather and share data among the Bank’s member countries and partners. She is responsible for the annual World Development Indicators and World Bank Atlas, which contain detailed and comprehensive data and information on countries’ and regions’ progress in attaining social, economic and environmental goals. She also supervises production of the analysis and summary tables of Global Development Finance, the Bank’s annual publication on capital flows to developing countries.

Marianne Fay
Director, World Development Report 2010
Marianne Fay is the co-director of the World Development Report 2010 on climate change.  Prior to this, she was a Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where she worked on infrastructure and more recently, adaptation to climate change.  She previously was the Lead Economist for the Finance, Infrastructure, and Private Sector Development Department of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World Bank.  She has also worked on energy and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa.  She holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University.  Her research has mostly focused on the role of infrastructure and urbanization in development, and more recently on urban poverty issues.  She is the author of a number of articles on these topics and has recently published books on “The Urban Poor in Latin America” and “Infrastructure in Latin America”.

Ivar Cederholm
Trust Fund Coordinator, Office of the Vice President, Development Economics
A former diplomat with the Government of Sweden and an expert in international finance, Mr. Cederholm manages trust fund mobilization for DEC’s research programs. He has worked in international development, private sector finance and banking in Latin American countries, the United Kingdom, United States, Russia, and Spain. He holds an M.B.A. from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Uri Dadush
Director, Development Prospects Group & International Trade Department
Uri Dadush leads the Development Prospects Group, responsible for analysis and projections for the world economy, and their implications for developing countries, including the trends in capital flows and prices of primary commodities. This group produces the Bank’s Global Economic Prospects and Global Development Finance reports. In 2002, Mr. Dadush was also named Director of the International Trade Department, which manages trade policy review work in the World Bank, addresses global trade issues, and supports regional and country work on trade. Before joining the Bank, he was president of The Economist Intelligence Unit. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Hebrew University and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard.

Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
Research Manager, Finance & Private Sector Development Team, Development Research Group
In addition to managing DEC’s financial sector research, Ms.Demirgüç-Kunt advises the Bank’s Financial Sector Vice-Presidency on operations and policy. After joining the Bank in 1989, she has been in different divisions of the Research Group, working on external finance and domestic financial sector issues. Her recent research has focused on banking crises, financial regulation, stock markets, corporate finance and the impact of financial structure on economic growth. Before joining the Bank, she was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Ohio State University.

Gershon Feder
Research Manager, Sustainable Rural & Urban Development Team, Development Research Group
Before taking on his current position, Mr. Feder was Chief of the Bank’s Agricultural Policies Division, and Chief of the Indonesia Agricultural Operations Division. His recent research has focused on land tenure and land markets in developing countries, and on the impact of agricultural extension. His other research interests include rural finance, technology diffusion, and sovereign debt servicing capacity. Mr. Feder has a B.A. in Economics and Development from Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has twice won the Quality of Research Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA), as well as their 2003 Award for Publication of Enduring Quality. In 2005, he was made a Fellow of the AAEA.

Indermit Gill
Director, World Development Report 2009
Indermit Gill is the Director of the World Development Report. Before joining the report team, he was a sector manager in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit in the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, where he was also economic adviser to the chief economist. Previously, he had been the economic adviser to the vice president of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, as well as head of the network. During 1997-99, he worked as a senior country economist in the Brazil Country Management Unit. Upon his return to Washington and between 2000 and 2002, he served as lead economist of human development in the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. His research has been published in several books and academic journals. Mr. Gill received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Elizabeth M. King
Research Manager, Human Development & Public Services Team, Development Research Group
Elizabeth M. King is the Research Manager for Public Services of the Development Research Group. Until early 2005, she was Lead Economist of the Human Development Unit in the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Region. Her main research interests have been the determinants of investments in human capital, the linkages among dimensions of human capital, poverty and economic development, and the impact of education reforms such as decentralization in developing countries. Several of her studies have examined also the significance of gender differences in the development process. Since joining the World Bank, she has worked on countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, among others. She was a member of two World Development Report teams. Ms. King received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, and has taught Economics at the University of the Philippines, Tulane University, and UCLA.

Peter Lanjouw
Research Manager, Poverty Team
Development Research Group
Peter Lanjouw, a Dutch national, is Research Manager of the Poverty Group in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in the Young Professionals Program in 1992, after completing his Ph.D in Economics from the London School of Economics.  He has been closely involved in four World Development Reports (Infrastructure, Poverty, Equity as well as the recently completed report on Reshaping Economic Geography) and has pursued a research agenda that encompasses a number of methodological questions in the measurement of poverty and inequality, as well as rural development, notably the study of a village economy in rural India and the broader analysis of rural non-farm diversification.  He has participated in the development and application of a methodology to estimate “poverty maps” in developing countries by combining household survey data with population census data.  He is an Honorary Fellow of the Amsterdam Institute of International Development, Amsterdam, and has also taught in the economics department of the Vrije (Free) University of Amsterdam, the Masters in Development Economics program at the University of Namur, Belgium, as well as at the Foundation for the Advanced Study of International Development in Tokyo, Japan, and spent two years as a visiting scholar in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a past editorial board member of the World Bank Economic Review and a present editorial board member of the Journal of African Economies.

Justin Lin,
Sr. Vice President & Chief Economist, Development Economics
Justin Yifu Lin is the World Bank’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President. On leave from Peking University since June 2008. Mr. Lin received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986 and is the author of 16 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, which has been published in seven languages, and the State-owned Enterprise Reform, which is available in Chinese, Japanese, and English. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed international journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition. Justin Yifu Lin was Vice Chairman, Committee for Economic Affairs of Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment including: the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council; the Working Group on the future of the OECD; and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee

Jimmy Olazo
Manager, Finance & Administration, and Manager, Knowledge for Change Program
As DEC’s Manager for Finance and Administration, Mr. Olazo is lead advisor to the management team for business, unit strategy,resource and work program planning, as well as budgeting, monitoring and reporting, and internal controls. He heads DEC’s Resource Management group, is the KCP manager, and as such has the responsibility for resource mobilization for DEC. He was the Finance Manager for the Bank's special fund to address the Asian Financial Crisis, and more recently, prior to joining DEC, as Manager for Finance and Administration for the Bank's Finance and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Olazo was a manager of a Citicorp affiliate in Manila.  He holds an MBA from the University of the Philippines and Advanced Certificate from New Hampshire College.

Martin Ravallion
Director, Development Research Group
Martin Ravallion has held various positions in the Bank, since he joined as an Economist in 1988. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, and has taught economics at L.S.E., Oxford University, the Australian National University, and Princeton University. His main research interests over the last 25 years have concerned poverty and policies for fighting it. He has advised numerous governments and international agencies on this topic, and he has written extensively on this and other subjects in economics, including three books and over 170 papers in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of ten economics journals, is a Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, a Founding Council Member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality and he serves on the International Advisory Board of the International Poverty Research Center, Beijing.

Luis Servén
Research Manager, Macroeconomics & Growth Team, Development Research Group
After joining the Bank in 1988, Luis Servén worked in the Development Research Group, and between 1999 and 2004 he managed the regional research program in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining the Bank he worked as a senior researcher at FEDEA and taught at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, MIT and CEMFI. His recent research focuses on open economy macroeconomics, fiscal policy and growth, exchange rate regimes, international portfolio diversification, saving and investment determinants, and microeconomic regulation and growth. He holds a Bachelors in Economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.