Thursday, April 14
9:30 -11:30 am

Transition Moments: Past and Present
World Bank H Building, Black Auditorium, 600 19th St. NW

A moderated panel discussion drawing out lessons from the transition experience of South Africa and other countries in the context of current transitions.

Moderated by Riz Khan (Al Jazeera English).

Confirmed Panelists:

• Marwan Muasher, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Jay Naidoo, Former Minister and Negotiator, South Africa
• Roelf Meyer, Former Minister and Negotiator, South Africa
• Lakhdar Brahimi, Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Afghanistan and Iraq 

Watch the event streaming at World Bank live! Share your views and ask panelists questions via wbconflict twitter feed using #WDR2011.

If you are not a World Bank Group or IMF employee, RSVP with subject line "Transition Moments" to wdr2011@worldbank.org with your name, affiliation, and contact information. Go to H Building Visitor's Desk to pick up your pass.

Thursday, April 14
12:00 -1:30 pm

2011 WDR Launch Presentation: Citizen Security, Justice, and Jobs
World Bank H Building, Black Auditorium, 600 19th St. NW

Presentation of the WDR 2011 findings and recommendations chaired by President Zoellick with WDR 2011 Advisory Council Members and Co-Directors.

Introductory Remarks:  World Bank President Robert Zoellick

Chair: Sarah Cliffe, WDR 2011 Co-Director

Panelists:

• Louise Arbour, President of International Crisis Group
• Mo Ibrahim, Chairman of Mo Ibrahim Foundation
• Jay Naidoo, Former Minister and Negotiator, South Africa
• Lakhdar Brahimi, Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Afghanistan and Iraq

Closing Remarks:  

• Nigel Roberts, WDR 2011 Co-Director
• Bruce Jones, WDR Senior External Advisor; Director, NYU Center on International Cooperation

Watch the event streaming at World Bank live! Share your views and ask panelists questions via wbconflict twitter feed using #WDR2011.

If you are not a World Bank Group or IMF employee, RSVP with subject line "2011 WDR Launch Presentation" to wdr2011@worldbank.org with your name, affiliation, and contact information. Go to H Building Visitor's Desk to pick up your pass.

Friday, April 15
12:30 - 2 pm

Private Sector and Job Creation in Fragile Environments
IFC Building, 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, L-101

A joint event with IFC, MIGA, and private sector leaders looking at possible initiatives to support job creation and social cohesion in insecure areas.

Chair/Introductory Remarks: Jyrki Koskelo, International Finance Corporation Vice President, Global Industries

Panelists:

• Mo Ibrahim, WDR  Advisory Council Member, Chairman of Mo Ibrahim Foundation
• Edith Quintrell, Director of Operations, MIGA
• Rosalind Kainyah, Vice President, Tullow Oil
• Arnold Ekpe, CEO of Ecobank
• Jay Naidoo, WDR Advisory Council Member and Former Minister, South Africa

Closing Remarks:  Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President

If you are not a World Bank Group or IMF employee, RSVP with subject line "Private Sector and Job Creation" to wdr2011@worldbank.org with your name, affiliation, and contact information. Go to IFC Visitor's Desk to pick up your pass.

Participant Bios:

Robert B. Zoellick became the 11th President of the World Bank Group, which works with 187 member countries, on July 1 2007. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Zoellick served as Vice Chairman, International of the Goldman Sachs Group, Managing Director, and Chairman of Goldman Sachs' Board of International Advisors from 2006-07. In 2005-06, Mr. Zoellick served as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. State Department. He was the Department's Chief Operating Officer and policy alternate for the Secretary of State, in addition to having lead policy responsibility in a number of areas. From 2001 to January 2005, Mr. Zoellick served in the U.S. cabinet as the 13th U.S. Trade Representative. For a full biography of President Zoellick click here.

Justin Yifu Lin is World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics. In this capacity, Mr. Lin guides the Bank’s intellectual leadership and plays a key role in shaping the economic research agenda of the institution. Building on a distinguished career as one of China’s leading economists, Mr. Lin is undertaking an ambitious research program that examines the industrialization of rapidly developing countries and sheds new light on the causes of lagging growth in poor regions. For a full biography click here.

Riz Khan is a renowned reporter and presenter for the Al Jazeera English news network. His work at Al Jazeera follows extensive careers with the BBC and CNN, where he in 1996 launched his interactive show Q&A with Riz Khan, interviewing thousands of guests, dignitaries and heads of state.

Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees the Endowment’s research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. Muasher served as foreign minister (2002–2004) and deputy prime minister (2004–2005) of Jordan, and his career has spanned the areas of diplomacy, development, civil society, and communications. He is also a senior fellow at Yale University.

Jay Naidoo is a leading anti-apartheid activist, and co-founder the J&J Group and the J&J Development Projects Trust. Jay was the first General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and served three successive terms; then Minister responsible for the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), in President Mandela's office, and later Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting. He is Chairperson of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a global public-private partnership committed to fighting malnutrition. Jay also sits on global advisory boards on health and telecommunications and is recipient of various awards.

Roelf Meyer has occupied several ministerial positions in South Africa and served as chief negotiator for the National Party during the South African transition process that ended apartheid. After the 1994 elections, Meyer served in the cabinet of former President Nelson Mandela. Today, Meyer is a businessperson and has been involved as a consultant on peace processes in countries around the globe.

Lakhdar Brahimi is the former Special Advisor and United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan and Iraq. He has held numerous United Nations positions, including Special  Representative for Haiti and South Africa, and has undertaken special missions on behalf of the UN Secretary General to DRC, Liberia, and Sudan.  Lakhdar Brahimi also chaired a panel to make recommendations on how the United Nations could improve its performances in peace operations resulting in the “Brahimi Report”.

Sarah Cliffe is Special Representative and Director for the WDR 2011. She has worked for the last twenty years in countries emerging from conflict and political transition, covering Afghanistan, Burundi, CAR, DRC, Guinea Bissau, Ethiopia, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, and Timor-Leste. Prior to joining the Bank, she worked for the United Nations Development Program in Rwanda, the Government of South Africa, and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, as well as for a major management consultancy company in the United Kingdom on public sector reform issues. Since joining the Bank, her work has covered post-conflict reconstruction, community driven development and civil service reform. She was Country Manager for Timor-Leste from 1999 to 2002; led the Bank’s Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group from 2002-2007 and was Director of Operations for East Asia and the Pacific from 2007-2009. Sarah holds degrees in History and Economic Development from Cambridge and Columbia Universities.

Nigel Roberts is Special Representative and Director for the WDR 2011. He has worked in international development for almost 40 years, spending much of this time living in Africa and Asia. He lived as a child in Malawi and Hong Kong, and in his professional life has been based for extended periods in Thailand, Hong Kong, Nepal, Kenya, Ethiopia, Jerusalem and Sydney (working on the Pacific Islands). Prior to joining the World Bank in 1981, he worked for 6 years as a British overseas volunteer and for the Britain-Nepal Medical Trust and Save the Children Fund. Nigel worked in the World Bank initially as an an agricultural economist on a number of East African countries (Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Comoros). Since 1988 and prior to co-leading the WDR team Nigel has worked as a field-based Country Manager in Nepal and Ethiopia, and as a Country Director in West Bank & Gaza and the Pacific. Nigel has an MA in English Literature from Oxford and an MPhil in Agricultural Economics from Reading University, UK and was a postgraduate research Fellow in Development Economics at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford.

Bruce Jones is Senior External Advisor for the WDR 2011. Bruce Jones is Director and Senior Fellow of the NYU Center on International Cooperation, and Senior Fellow and Director of the Managing Global Insecurity Initiative at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on US policy on transnational threats and international cooperation; the role of the United Nations in conflict management and international security; and peacekeeping, post-conflict recovery and fragile state engagements. Bruce has served in several capacities at the United Nations including as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary-General during the UN reform effort and as Acting Secretary of the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee. From 2000-2002 he was special assistant to the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process. He has also written or been lead author for several major policy reports, including: From Fragility to Resilience: Statebuilding in Fragile States (OECD).

Louise Arbour is President and CEO of the International Crisis Group. From 2004 - 2008, she served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. From 1996 to 1999, she served as the Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, which issued the first war crimes indictment by an international court to a serving head of state. She is also a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Mohamed Ibrahim is the founder of Celtel, a telecommunication company that operates mobile phone networks in over 15 African countries.  Dr. Ibrahim is also the founder and Chairman of the Board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation whose objective is to promote good governance across Africa, encourage citizens to hold their leaders accountable, and recognize outstanding leaders for their achievements.  The Foundation also publishes the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, which ranks the performance of all sub-Saharan African countries.

Edith Quintrell is Director of the Operations Group of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group. This group is responsible for underwriting MIGA’s guarantees and developing the agency’s business.  Prior to joining MIGA in 2007, Edie held various senior level positions in the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), serving as Vice President for Insurance; Director of Technical Operations; Regional Manager, etc. Edie has also been active in the Berne Union, including Chair of the Investment Insurance Committee.

Rosalind Kainyah joined Tullow Oil plc in June 2009 as Vice President of External Affairs and CSR. Previously, Ms. Kainyah served as Director of Public Affairs, USA for the De Beers Group. She joined the De Beers Group in 2002 as Corporate and Commercial Legal Counsel at the Diamond Trading Company (DTC), the Group’s sales and marketing arm. Prior to joining De Beers, she was a corporate lawyer at Linklaters, a major law firm in London, England. In July 2004, she was appointed Executive Director of DTC Corporate Communications, with the responsibility for building and maintaining relationships between the DTC and its stakeholders, which include governments, clients, NGOs and the media.

Arnold Ekpe, a Nigerian national, has almost thirty years of banking experience in Africa and Europe.  Before his first stint as CEO of ETI between 1996 and 2001, Mr. Ekpe served as Vice President and Africa Regional Head of Corporate and Trade Finance for Citibank.  After leaving ETI in 2001, he joined United Bank for Africa (UBA) in Nigeria where he served as CEO until 2004.  Mr. Ekpe returned as CEO of ETI once again in June 2005.

Jyrki Koskelo, a national of Finland, currently holds the position of Vice President, Global Industries. Jyrki oversees IFC’s business and provides leadership to the departments serving Global Financial Markets, Private Equity and Investment Funds, Sub-national Finance, Global Information and Communication Technologies, Global Manufacturing and Services, Health and Education, and Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals. Prior to this assignment, he has served as VP for Europe, Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Global Financial Markets Cluster and as VP for Africa and Global Financial Markets. Jyrki has had an extended career at the IFC with varied experiences across sectors including manufacturing, infrastructure and extractive industries. He has also worked at the global level and held specific responsibilities in Central and Southern Europe where he served as Country Anchor for Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Prior to joining IFC, he spent more than 10 years in Senior Management positions in the private sector, including Managing Director of Georeda Ltd. in Saudi Arabia, a large engineering company with six branch offices, and Vice President of Finance of Geo-Hydro, Inc. in Rockville, Maryland, a high technology company he co-founded. Jyrki holds a Master of Science degree in International Management/Finance from Sloan School of Management/MIT and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Helsinki, Finland.