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The World Bank: A human rights free zone?
2020-06-03 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | WebEx & MC 10-300
A Seminar of the Social & Environmental Thematic Group
In 2015, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights accused the World Bank of treating human rights more like an infectious disease than universal values and obligations. Reidar Kvam, former Senior Manager at IFC and Global Lead at the World Bank, has worked on human rights and development issues since the 1980s. He is currently working as an advisor to the World Bank’s Human Rights and Development Trust Fund. Reidar will discuss how the World Bank Group’s approach to human rights has evolved over the years, and how operations and legal opinions have addressed human rights comparing the approaches in the private sector with those for public sector operations.
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High Speed Rail: California in Context
2020-05-28 13:00 - 14:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
Speaker: Lou Thompson, former World Bank Railways Advisor and Principal of Thompson, Galenson & Assoc, LLC .
You are invited to a presentation on current developments in high speed rail by our colleague Lou Thompson. This will be our first presentation on railroads after many presentations on roads and urban transport. The presentation will focus on the challenges in establishing high speed rail in California and the experience in other countries in comparison with California.
Lou Thompson was the World Bank’s Railway Advisor from 1986 to 2003 during which time he reviewed the Bank’s entire scope of railway activities. He worked in all Bank regions and received the World Bank Presidents award for excellence for leading the concessioning of railways. Since 2003 to the present he has been the Principal of Thompson, Galenson and Associates consulting with public and commercial clients on railway and transport issues in the USA and worldwide. Read more >>>
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A Historical Look at the World Bank in Food and Agriculture
2020-05-06 13:00 - 14:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
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Presenter: Uma Lele – The first woman to be awarded a Ph. D. in agricultural economics by Cornell University. Uma Lele was elected President Elect of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) in July 2018. Since leaving services of the World Bank she has operated as an independent scholar and development economist and is affiliated with the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. More about Uma Lele, read here.
Uma Lele will summarize her historical look at the Bank’s role in global agriculture. It is based on her forthcoming book on agriculture, “Food for All”. She will speak about the Bank’s role in cross-border agricultural issues, of which historically the most enduring have been the Indus Basin Treaty, partnership with FAO in the 1960s, and establishment of the CGIAR in 1972. The Bank’s poverty reduction and Green Revolution approach greatly influenced its agriculture work, as did the decision to bring China into the fold, and the design of IDA. Questions going forward which will be addressed include most importantly whether project lending continues to be an appropriate instrument for agricultural assistance.
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From the Frontlines of COVID-19: a conversation with Terry Jodrie
2020-04-29 14:00 - 15:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
Seminar of the Social and Environmental Thematic Group
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Join us on Wednesday afternoon for a conversation with Terry Jodrie who has just returned from a two-week tour in the Emergency Room in hospitals in Queens, New York. Terry will briefly share his experience of battling COVID-19 in the epicenter of NY and will be available to answer your questions on COVID-19. This session is being organized by Webex and will be moderated by Anis Dani. You can connect by video or audio link by clicking on the Join Using WebEX button below.
Come with your questions to learn about the continuous crisis in the ER or about early symptoms and management of COVID-19.
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Speaker: Terry Jodrie, MD, FACEP, NRP is a board-certified physician in Emergency Medicine with 30 + years of experience. He has served as a Medical Director for the Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department until his retirement in 2017. In the words of one of his colleagues “His retirement is akin to Verizon providing life-time free 5G to its customers”. He currently works as the Medical Director for the Paramedic educational programs at Prince George’s Community College and Howard Community College.
Locally, he volunteers his time as a Paramedic at Calvert Advanced Life Support , a public safety, 911 response service in Maryland, and as a physician for clinics in under-served communities in the District of Columbia, and the Maryland suburbs. Globally, he is a Development Specialist for the Global​ Emergency Medicine Initiative (GEMINI) and a volunteer physician for International Medical Corps, in which capacity, he recently served a two-week volunteer tour in the Emergency Room in hospitals in Queen’s, New York..

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Speeding Up Literacy to Benefit Girls and Adult Women: Game-changing Research from Reading Neuroscience
2020-04-09 11:30 - 13:00 | WebEx & MC 10-300
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Introduction: Girls’ education is an international imperative, but low-income countries are likely to fail the basic skills targets of 2030. Low-income girls often score lower than boys and drop out early, leading to adult illiteracy. Girls must be taught essential reading and math efficiently to boost early performance and likelihood of staying in school. Adult illiterates, most of whom are women, must also be taught efficiently. Little known solutions can revolutionize instruction. Much neuroscientific research has opened up unknown doors to streamline the brain processes that create reading automaticity. It is imperative that governments and donors understand their rationale and apply them to attain gender equity. The presentation will explain the science in lay language and show the effects of pilot projects in various countries.
Presenter: Helen Abadzi is a cognitive psychologist who worked for 27 years at the Bank as an education specialist and evaluator. She started the international early-grade reading initiative in 2004 and after retirement she continues to work in this and related areas. She collaborates with UNESCO and other organizations, and teaches psychology courses at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Moderator: Dominique Lallement, Co-Chair Gender and Development TG
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The World Bank, a Historical Perspective on Delivering Public and Private Goods in the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector
2020-04-08 13:00 - 14:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
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Presenter: Adolfo Brizzi, International Consultant. Former Director (2012-18) of the Policy and Technical Advisory Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Mr. Brizzi worked for 22 years in the World Bank (1990-2012) in various managerial and technical positions in the Agriculture and Rural Development sector, including Sector Manager for the South Asia Region. Before that Mr. Brizzi worked in FAO for 8 years (1982-1990).
The paper looks at the evolution of the WB interventions with respect to its capacity to support the delivery of public and private goods in the Agriculture and Rural Development sector. It examines whether its investment vehicles: sovereign loans by IBRD/IDA and non-sovereign loans, equity, guarantees by IFC, have been able to address the needs of smallholder agriculture, which by nature entails a much stronger role to be played by the private sector. The paper takes a critical view of some of past interventions and looks at some key re-positioning that took place in the Bank, especially after the food crisis of 2008, to bring the “producer sector” more at the center of its interventions and to leverage more decisively the private sector, as a critical pathway to achieve the SDGs.
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Global Waves of Debt-Causes and Consequences (postponed until further notice)
2020-03-09 11:00 - 13:00 | MC C2 – 125
The 1818 Society Global Finance Group (GFG) is pleased to invite you to attend a presentation on Global Waves of Debt-Causes and Consequences. The two distinguished speakers are: Ayhan Kose, Director, World Bank’s Prospects Group and Franziska Ohnsorge, Manager, World Bank’s Prospects Group. The Prospects Group replaces the old Development Economics Department.
Ayhan Kose will present findings of the forthcoming book: Global Waves of Debt-Causes and Consequences by Ayhan Kose, Pete Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the recent development in world debt market, an in-depth review of past experiences and a forecast of future scenarios.
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Presentation of Book by Ridley Nelson on His Bank Agriculture Experience
2020-03-04 13:00 - 14:30 | MC 6 – 860
Ridley Nelson, who most of you know, is releasing a book detailing his experience working on agriculture in the World Bank. The book will be released in March, and Ridley has agreed to present it to us on March 4. The presentation will also be available on WebEx. The book has been very favorably reviewed by Tom Blinkhorn. Please join us for the presentation and discussion.
Ridley Nelson’s memoir, Echoes From Far Lands, describes working on farms in his youth in Australia and on a merchant ship, and then broadens into an exploration of cultures, farming and life drawn from living in seven countries on five continents. While the encounters with cultures and farmers, especially in Africa and India, draw from working on agriculture and rural development for the World Bank, the book is not aimed at specialists and does not directly explore Bank projects. However, in his presentation and readings the author will focus mostly on selected farming and people themes from the book.
More information, including the book blurb and a means of contacting the author, is on Ridleynelson.com. The release date of the book is March 3 when it can be ordered through Amazon, either paperback or eBook (no audio). Before that date, Amazon pre-orders for the paperback can be placed for shipping March 3, or the paperback is available now from the author and from Mascot Books, Herndon. There is a link to their website on the author’s website.
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Special Seminar on Bhutan by the experts -- Mark LaPrairie and Tshering Yangzom
2020-02-26 11:00 - 13:00 | MC6-860, World Bank Main Complex
Join us for a very special event. The two people in Washington who are the experts on Bhutan have agreed to make a special presentation on Bhutan. We expect the briefing to cover a wide range of topics — history, culture, environment, governance, social development — that will help participants who have signed up for the 2020 Bhutan trip. The session may also be of interest to other members. In case you are unable to join the seminar in person you can join by WebEx through the link provided below.
After the session Bhutan trip participants are welcome to stay on to meet with your trip coordinators — Cyprian Fisiy for the trekking group, and Jenny Zhu, for the cultural tour — to discuss any other questions you may have.
About the Speakers:
Mark LaPrairie is Senior Operations Officer, OPCS and is the person with the most experience and knowledge on Bhutan.
Mark was the first World Bank Resident Representative to Bhutan. Previously we was the Unicef Education Officer in Bhutan, and prior to that was a volunteer teacher in Bhutan.
Tshering Yangzom is Director of Programs, Bhutan Foundation. Bhutan does not have an Embassy in USA and Tshering serves as the principal resource person on Bhutan in Washington.
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Approach of IFC and WBG in Delivering Water and Sanitation for All
2020-02-20 11:30 - 13:30 | MC 4 – 300
Speaker: George Butler, IFC Water & Sanitation Sector Specialist
Mr. Butler will describe the current IFC approach to water and sanitation. He will then discuss how the IFC increases funding for the sector and how the WBG is important in catalyzing investment. He will give examples of successful IFC projects.
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Presentation on Ports and Trade Logistics
2020-02-20 10:30 - 12:30 | MC 6 – 500
You are invited to a presentation on Ports and Trade Logistics by our colleague Michel Audigé. This will be our first presentation by a ports expert after many presentations on roads and urban transport. The presentation will focus specifically on the port of Rijeka in Croatia where the Bank was involved for almost 20 years. The presentation will include – inter alia – engineering issues, in-depth institutional port reform, voluntary redundancy scheme, port-city interface redevelopment and two PPP transactions.
The Speaker: Michel Audigé retired from the World Bank on January 1, 2012 and since has worked as an independent consultant specialized in the ports and logistics sectors.
In his last assignment within the Bank, Michel was the Transport Sector Manager for the South Asia Region at the World Bank. Since he joined the Bank in August 1991, Michel has been leading or contributing to various projects in the transport sector with a special focus on ports and trade logistics in sub-Saharan Africa until 2002 and then on all other transport modes (roads, railways and urban transport) in Europe/Central Asia and South Asia.
His experience in the transport sector includes advising Government on transport policy (including trade and transport facilitation and logistics), carrying out economic sector works and implementing investment projects (Roads, Ports, Airports, Rail, Inland Waterways and Urban Transport and Development) ranging in size from US$20 million (Trade Gateway project in the Gambia) to US$1.2 billion (Padma bridge in Bangladesh).
Socializing: 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Speaker at 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
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Seminar on U.S. Federal Income Taxes and Foreign Financial Asset
2020-02-14 13:30 - 15:30 | MC Preston Auditorium
Speaker: Mr. Dale W. Mason, CPA, and the Founder in 2019 of Dale Mason, CPA & Co.. Previously with the Wolf Group, and before then for many years with global accounting firms such as Arthur Anderson, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and KPMG, Dale has acquired over 25 years of experience in international tax consultancy work. He has practiced in Central Europe, California and Washington, DC, has advised clients, both domestic and expatriate, on complex international and domestic tax issues, and has been a prominent speaker at many seminars hosted by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations.
Topics of Discussion:
The seminar will focus in particular on: (i) the new U.S. tax law enacted in 2017 and how it may affect personal income taxes for 2019 and 2020 and beyond; (ii) the preparation of the 2019 U.S. Federal individual income tax return (Form 1040 and related forms); (iii) how to report the Bank SRP pension as well as other foreign financial accounts and assets on Form 8938 (Statement of Specified foreign Financial Assets); and (iv) how also to report foreign financial accounts on FinCEN Form 114 (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR)).
Time permitting, the seminar may also provide a brief update on the U.S. exit tax (expatriation tax). The exit tax may possibly affect a U.S. citizen who renounces U.S. nationality, or a U.S. permanent resident who terminates U.S. residency either voluntarily or involuntarily (as might possibly happen for example if a permanent resident moves out of the U.S.A. to live in another country), and who meets certain criteria related to the duration of U.S. residency, average annual net income taxes, and net worth.
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The Energy Transition: Where do we stand, what more needs to be done, and how to make this happen?
2020-02-13 11:00 - 12:30 | MC 8-100
The Energy Transition: Low-carbon technology, climate policies, SDG7/SDG13 objectives, ESG investment growth and user choices have driven the fastest energy transition in history. But will the accelerated speed be enough to deliver the sector’s required contribution to meet the world’s climate change commitments? What more do governments need to do to speed up the transition so as to keep within the 2 degrees global temperature increase? The presentation will take stock of where we are today, discuss the evolving dynamics, and highlight what is known-and still unknown.
Speaker: Marianne Haug, currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies (OIES), Oxford University, UK. After a long career at the World Bank, she served as Director at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, headed the Forum für Zukunftsenergien in Berlin and as well as the Advisory Group for Energy at the European Commission in Brussels, and taught Energy Economics and Sustainable Development at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart.

BFSFCU Digital Banking Demo
2020-01-21 13:30 - 15:00 | MC C1-100
The Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union has recently launched New Digital Banking platform. To facilitate a better understanding of this new system, we have invited Shronda McElveen of BFSFCU to do a demonstration of this new platform and answer questions. For specific questions about the New Digital Banking, please send, preferably before the demo, an email to 1society@worldbank.org with the subject BFSFCU.
We have a livestreaming for this demonstration, please click here to view.

RMIP: What You Need To Know
2019-12-18 10:00 - 11:15
Join an online overview to the World Bank Group Retiree Medical Insurance Program (RMIP) and learn how the 1818 Society works to safeguard your medical benefits. In this session, we will:
• Review WBG retiree medical benefits
• Explain how Medicare or National Health Care programs work with WBG insurance
• Clarify resources for resolving questions or concerns
This session is geared primarily to US-based retirees, although our members based overseas will also benefit. A separate session for this group is planned in Spring.
Presenter: Sharon Puckett
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Why Certain Structural Reforms Are Unavoidable in the Middle East and North Africa
2019-12-05 14:00 - 15:30 | Room MC 3 – 570
Speaker: Daniel Lederman, Deputy Chief Economist, MENA Region, WBG

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A View from the Inside: The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
2019-11-20 12:30 - 14:00 | Room G 7 -011
Presenter: Robin Horn, Former Education Director of the London-based Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF); former Manager of the Education Sector at the World Bank.
Introduction: Larry Wolff, World Bank Retiree
Chair: Amanda Devercelli, Senior Education Specialist and Global Lead, Early Child Development, Education Global Practice, World Bank
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The World Bank and Irrigation
2019-11-19 12:30 - 14:00 | Room J 9 – 044
Joint presentation of the Agriculture & Rural Development, Water Thematic Groups and the Water in Agriculture Global Solutions Group-Water Global Practice
Speaker: Herve Plusquellec, 1818 Society member and irrigation expert on the current irrigation program of the World Bank. He will present the key findings of his draft document on the Bank History and Irrigation: Evolution of lending for irrigation, the impact of Bank reorganizations and policies, the performance of irrigation through OED and IEG reviews and the cause of the slowdown of lending for this sub-sector.
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After the meeting, a lunch together will follow at the MC Cafeteria for those who wish to stay and socialize.

Structural Reforms and Future of Financial Markets in Brazil
2019-11-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Room J 1-050
Structural Reforms and Future of Financial Markets in Brazil
Speaker: Dr. Otaviano Canuto, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings Institution, and principal of the Center for Macroeconomics and Development.
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The Fukushima Plant Meltdown: Managing a Nuclear Disaster
2019-11-14 11:00 - 13:00 | MC 2- 520
The Energy Thematic Group of the Bank’s 1818 Society is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Mr. Naomi Hirose, the former President/CEO of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). Mr. Hirose received his B.A. in Sociology from Hitotsubashi University in 1976, and his MBA from Yale School of Management in 1983 and currently serves as Vice Chairman.
Mr. Hirose’s presentation “The Fukushima Plant Meltdown: Managing a Nuclear Disaster” will include:

Reflections on the Fukushima accident
Current on- and off-site situation
Related discussions on clean-up costs and impact on future investment plans
Corporate commitment to recovery actions
Lesson learned- from the perspective of corporate executive/CEO

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The Highlights of Implementing an OPBRC (Output and Performance-Based Road Contract) Project in Laos
2019-11-13 11:00 - 12:30 | MC 7-300
A presentation by the Transport Thematic Group
Speaker: Cesar Queiroz
Cesar will discuss the main challenges and success factors in implementing the project in this landlocked country in Southeast Asia. He will also demonstrate the features on the OPBRC financial model developed for the project.
Time: Presentation 11:00 am, Socializing 10:30 to 11:00 am
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Reflections of an Alumnus On His Career Experiences in Some Socialist Countries
2019-11-12 12:00 - 13:30 | MC C3 – 220
The 1818 Society History Thematic Group will sponsor a presentation by Ian Hume entitled REFLECTIONS OF AN ALUMNUS ON HIS CAREER EXPERIENCES IN SOME SOCIALIST COUNTRIES.
He will give highlights of his personal experiences and the work he was called upon to do as an Economist in Yugoslavia, as the first Country Economist on Romania, as Division Chief responsible for Hungary, the PDRY (South Yemen, a Marxist state) and Afghanistan, and as Resident Representative in Warsaw from the time of Poland’s launching its post-communist reform programs.
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Addressing the Politics and Socio-Economic Angst that Underpins the Populist Revolt in America and the UK
2019-11-12 11:00 - 12:30 | MC 4-300
Joint presentation of the Governance and Economics Thematic Groups
Synopsis – Inequality and perception of indifferent elites have led to a political backlash on a broad scale in the USA and UK. Unfortunately, there has been a dearth of practical ways to level out the concentrations of income and even wealth in the Anglo-American world since 1980. Populist anger is rising as, despite a litany of promises, little in the realm of public policy has been done to address these issues. A serious effort to quell populist anger and offer genuine hope, rather than more hatred and self-pity, will inevitably require broad-based programs involving both public sector initiatives and private sector involvement (and perhaps funded at New Deal magnitudes). 1818 members Richard Burcroff and Paul Ballard have analyzed the causes and remedies in a recent paper and will present the highlights at the seminar. Click here to read the paper.
Chair: Norman Hicks
Discussant: Kevin Cleaver
Speakers:
Richard Burcroff joined the Asian Development Bank as an economist in 1974, thence the World Bank in 1979 until 1997. At the Bank, he was involved in structural adjustment lending operations and country economic studies, agriculture-sector adjustment lending operations to Turkey and China, and ARD-type sector studies in economies in transition. After retirement in 1997, he participated in several economic and pre-investment studies for the Bank’s ECA Region, IEG, FAO, ADB, DfID, and USAID. Richard earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington, followed by post-doctoral studies at Yale.
Paul Ballard worked at the Bank (1976-2002) on trade policy and private-sector development as an economist, and on development banking and financial-sector restructuring as a financial specialist. In these areas, he managed lending operations and policy reforms design for adjustment programs. In 2004-11, Paul founded a small boutique venture advisory firm called WAVE focused on China. Paul has worked in Europe, the U.S.A., Asia and Latin America. He graduated from Oxford and Columbia Universities.

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The Paradox of Innovation
2019-11-06 14:00 - 15:30 | MC 3 – 570
Speaker: Bill Maloney, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance & Institutions Global Practice

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The Politics of Education Reform: Insights from Latin America
2019-10-31 12:30 - 14:00 | G 7 -011
Speaker: Barbara Bruns, World Bank retiree

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New Directions for Agriculture and Food Systems at the World Bank
2019-10-30 11:00 - 12:30 | MC 6-860
Speaker: Julian A. Lampietti , Global Engagements Manager, Agriculture and Food Global Practice

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THE 1818 SOCIETY 41st ANNUAL MEETING
2019-10-23 - 2019-10-24 | J B1-080
Note: All sessions will be Livecast and held in Room J B1-080. Please click this link -> Livecast
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
10:00 am – 11:00 am Coffee; Meet and Greet; Information Tables*
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Presentation by SRP Managers on Staff Retirement Plan
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Presentation by HR and Plan Administrator Reps on RMIP
Thursday, October 24, 2019
10:00 am – 11:00 am Coffee; Meet and Greet; Information Tables*
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Address by David Malpass, President, WBG
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Presentation on “The State of Fragile States: Reigniting the Dialogue on Fragility, Conflict, and Violence” by Joel Hellman, Dean, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and former World Bank Chief Institutional Economist and Director of the Center for Conflict, Security and Development
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm Annual Business Meeting

Adoption of the Agenda
President’s Report
Financial Report
In Memoriam
Nominating Committee Report and Announcement of New Board Members
Other Business
Adjournment

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Cocktail Reception (Spouses and significant others welcome)

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*Information Tables
1818 Society’s Members Helping Members (MHM)
1818 Society’s Active Retirement Lifestyle-z: Treks & Tours
Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union (BFSFCU)
Community Connections Campaign (CCC)
Margaret McNamara Educational Grant (MMEG)
WB Family Network Book Project

ADB’s Support for Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Development Sector
2019-10-15 12:30 - 14:00 | G 6 – 050
Speaker:
Andrew Brubaker, Principal Evaluation Specialist at the Asian Development Bank.
Andrew has been with ADB for 7 years and primarily works on corporate and thematic evaluations related to environment, agriculture and natural resources management and public sector management. He was the principal evaluator for the recent evaluation of ADB’s work on agriculture and rural development. He is currently leading ADB’s Safeguard Policy evaluation. Before joining ADB, he worked in evaluation at the International Fund for Agricultural Development and for several US government agencies related to agriculture and international development. Andrew’s international work began in the Philippines where he served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer.
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World Bank Group's Financial Sector Strategy
2019-10-02 11:00 - 13:00 | MC 7-370
Speakers: Alfonso Mora, Global Director, Finance Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice-WB
Michael Goldberg, Lead Operations Officer, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Practice Group-WB
Alfonso Mora the Global Director for the Finance Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) Global Practice at the World Bank Group. He manages the FCI Global Teams related to Stability & Integrity; Financial Infrastructure, Inclusion & Access; Long-Term Finance; and Crisis & Disaster Risk Management. He also leads FCI’s LAC and ECA regional teams. He joined the Bank in January 2013 Since he joined the WBG, Alfonso has led various projects in Latin America, East Asia Pacific, Middle East and Eastern Europe advising Governments, supervisors and regulators in projects related to financial sector development, access to finance, banking crisis and resolution, capital markets and financial regulations. Alfonso has participated in several Financial Sector Assessment Programs (FSAP) as mission chief and specialist. Currently, he represents the WBG in different committees of the Financial Stability Board (FSB).
Alfonso holds a PhD in Economics from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, a Master of Finance from the Catholic University of Leuven and has also served as a visiting PhD student at Boston University.
Mike Goldberg is Lead Operations Officer for EFI. He has worked in every region and on development effectiveness units in Africa and LAC. He was TTL for competitiveness, SME and microfinance projects for 18 long years, and has led line of credit reviews for five. Mike published two books – “How SMEs Cope with Crime and Violence” and “Microfinance: Managing Risk and Creating Value”. He has an MA in economic development from the Tufts University and MBA in Finance from the Drexel University. He is fluent in Spanish, speaks poor Portuguese, and some Chinese.
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Water, Peace and Security in Israel, Palestine and the Region
2019-10-01 10:30 - 13:00 | MC 2 – 850
Speaker: Gidon Bromberg, is the co-founder and Israeli co-Director of EcoPeace Middle East, a unique organization, established in 1994, that brings together Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis to promote environmental sustainability and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. EcoPeace is the first cross-border environmental group in the Middle East, and a global trailblazer in the practical implementation of environmental peace building.

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