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Global Waves of Debt-Causes and Consequences
2021-04-29 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
A presentation by the 1818 Society Global Finance Thematic Group (GFG)

Keynote speaker: Ayhan Kose, Acting Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions and Director, Prospects Group.
Chair: Ismail Dalla, Global Finance Group, 1818 Society
Ayhan Kose will present findings of the 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 the world debt market, an in-depth review of past experiences and a forecast of future scenarios.
The fastest growing segment of the world financial markets is the debt market both government and corporate debt. The rapid growth in US government debt is also most alarming. Debt of most developed countries carries negative interest rates or extremely low interest rates. The insights gained by the speaker through the research and the book should be of interest to our members especially those of you who were in the trenches during the Latin American and Asian crises
Please register for the event by April 23. This will assist in planning the event. We can accommodate 95 participants.
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The Bank Commits to Cut Learning Poverty in Half by 2030: What Needs to Happen?
2021-04-29 12:30 - 14:00 | WebEx & MC 10-300
Hosted by the Education GP and the 1818 Society Education Alumni Group
Presenter: Girin Beeharry, Senior Advisor, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Discussants:
Jaime Saavedra, Global Director, Education, The World Bank
Luis Crouch, Chief Technical Officer and Vice President, RTI International
Chair: Robin Horn, Chair, The 1818 Society World Bank Education Alumni Group
Description: As highlighted in Bank analytic and strategic reports, levels of basic reading comprehension and math competency continue to be frustratingly low in countries across the globe despite billions of dollars in World Bank lending, thousands of projects, and hundreds of highly skilled and dedicated education staff focused on helping countries raise outcomes. Drawing on his 2021 IJED essay, Girin will examine the Bank’s global leadership role in addressing this challenge by specifying the problem as “Learning Poverty” and committing to the objective of cutting Learning Poverty in half by 2030. In his remarks, he will emphasize that, if the Bank is literal about this objective, it will not only have to prioritize this objective above all others but will also need to convince the principal multilateral and bilateral partners to join forces with the Bank to help make sure that this objective is achieved. Girin will also argue that achieving this objective will require the Bank to rigorously and openly hold itself accountable on its own efforts and those of its partners.
About the Presenter:
Girindre Beeharry is Senior Advisor, Global Education, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Girin advises the foundation’s efforts to support partners that are focused on improving foundational literacy and numeracy in sub-Saharan Africa and India, having initiated and led this program for four years. He previously served as director of the foundation’s India Country Office, overseeing their work in health, sanitation, financial inclusion, and agriculture. Before that he was the director of strategy of the foundation’s Global Health Division. Prior to joining the foundation in 2005, Girin worked in business development for immunization at Becton, Dickinson, and Co. and was previously, between 1997 and 2002, a senior health economist for the World Bank in the Latin America and Caribbean Region.

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Large Urban Infrastructure Projects: The Controversies around the Washington DC Region Beltway 495 and I-270 Extensions
2021-04-29 11:15 - 12:45
A continuation of the Urban & Water Thematic Group’s “Talk Shop” series.
The presentation will focus on the following points: (1) The protagonists (who are they and what is their position?); (2) the costs; (3) the financing mechanisms and PPP arrangements (who is paying for this?); (4) the environmental impact; (5) the consultation process and next steps in the decision-making process; (6) how Covid might help to re-think the project. The presentation will explain the position of CABE and why CABE believes Maryland’s plan to enter a controversial public-private partnership to widen I-495 and I-270 with four privatized tollways might 1) fail to relieve congestion at no-cost to taxpayers but 2) succeed at advancing a predatory P3 model engineered to permanently turn public infrastructure into privately-controlled for-profit assets.
Speaker: Brad German
Before retiring in 2017, Brad German was a senior director of public relations for Freddie Mac. Before joining Freddie Mac in 1998, he had held the following positions: media relations director for the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., senior economics editor at Builder Magazine, and housing and development reporter for the Bureau of National Affairs. Brad graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1978.
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Facilitator: Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovic
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Active Living and Preparing for Emergencies
2021-04-22 11:00 - 12:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
Members Helping Members (MHM) Learning and Discussion Session

Objective: The session, consisting of a mix of a presentation, a panel discussion, and breakout groups will provide resources and tools to help members prepare for emergencies and hear from panel members describe their personal experiences of active living and emergency preparedness. The session is aimed at all members, and will be especially useful to those who are living solo or who feel they or a family member is at higher risk of emergency situations.
Organizers: Anis Dani & Xiao Ye
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Achievements and Challenges of Water Reforms in Chile
2021-04-15 11:00 - 12:30
A continuation of the Urban & Water Thematic Group’s “Talk Shop” series.
The presentation will first introduce the main characteristics of 1981 Water Law designed to provide market incentives to reallocate water toward more valuable uses and the 2005 Reform aimed at addressing, among others, speculation in non-consumptive water-use rights. The presentation will then focus on Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) reforms gradually implemented since the late 1970s and the role of the independent Regulator in enforcing a state-of-the-art tariff setting mechanism aimed at the same time managing demand, recovering costs, encouraging efficiency while still ensuring access by low-income households. The Regulator also monitors the quality of service in urban centers provided by more than 50 utility companies that are either privately owned or are operating under long-term “concession” contracts. These utilities finance their development exclusively from cash generation and from commercial sources. The presentation will candidly assess performance of the reforms to date and discuss challenges ahead.
Host: Alex Bakalian
Facilitator: Abel Mejia
Speaker: Professor Guillermo Donoso
Presenter’s Bio:
Professor Donoso teaches Water Economics and Management and Natural Resources Economics to undergraduate and graduate students at the Water Law and Economic Center and Agricultural Economics Department of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC). Prof. Donoso specializes in water allocation, collective water management, urban water economics and policy and water use efficiency. He is a member of the Board of the International Water Resource Association (IWRA) and of the Stockholm World Water Week Scientific Program Committee. Prof. Donoso was the Dean of the PUC’s College of Agriculture and Forestry between 1998 and 2007.
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Global Education Inequality During and After Covid
2021-04-08 12:30 - 14:00 | WebEx & MC 10-300
The Education GP BBL Series provides a space for World Bank education staff and visiting researchers and speakers to share recent findings, innovative on-the ground experience, and implementation challenges and successes relevant to the work of the Bank in education.

Chair: Robin Horn, Former World Bank Education Manager and Chair of the 1818 Society Education Group.
Presenter: Emiliana Vegas, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow & Co-Director of the Center for Universal Education, former Chief of Education at the IDB
Discussant: Luis Benveniste, World Bank Regional Director, Human Development, Latin America and the Caribbean
Description: Among the many disruptions caused by Covid-19, one of the most dramatic is the extensive school closures throughout the world, affecting over 1.6 billion students worldwide at its peak in March 2020. While some countries have begun to reopen schools in recent months, the impact on today’s students, especially the poor and disadvantaged, is likely to be large and long lasting. How will these learning losses affect future generations, how may they affect global income inequality, and what can the international community do to reduce the risk of growing inequality? Emiliana will discuss her recent research with colleagues from Brookings and The World Bank that addresses these questions.
About the Speaker:
Emiliana Vegas is a senior fellow and co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. A leading expert on education in developing countries, Emiliana has written extensively on issues affecting education systems in Latin America and across the globe. Her papers and books cover topics ranging from policies to raise teacher effectiveness, to school finance and early childhood development policies. Before Brookings, Emiliana served as the chief of the Education Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) where she led a shift in the IDB’s lending composition of to focus on system-wide change to promote learning and skills created SUMMA, the first regional Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Before coming to the IDB, Emiliana was a lead economist for the World Bank.

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When did the World Bank Discover the Virtues of Good Governance and Anti-Corruption in Development and What is it Doing About It?
2021-03-31 11:00 - 12:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A virtual joint presentation by 1818 Society Governance and Economics Thematic Groups
Chair: Inder Sud, President, 1818 Society
Moderator: Vinay Bhargava, Convenor, Governance Thematic Group
Speaker:
Pierre Landell-Mills will provide an eye-witness account based on his ring-side seat at many of the transformative events starting from McNamara reaction when presented with corruption assessment in the Philippines and Mali. Pierre is contributing a paper on this subject for the Oxford-World Bank Archive project. The paper is available on the Governance Thematic Group page on the 1818 Society Website. You can also contact vbhargava@1818alumniwbg.org for a copy.
This will be followed by a conversation with Mr. Edward Olowo-Okere, Director of Governance Global Practice at the World Bank on current strategy and anti-corruption efforts of the World Bank including in the hundreds of billions being allocated to COVID-19 responses including vaccination.
Speaker bio: Mr. Pierre Landell-Mills was lead author of the WDR 1983 on ‘Management in Development’, lead author on the Bank report on Sub-Saharan Africa in 1989 that for the first time focused on governance as a constraint in development, World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh (1994-98) and Senior Adviser on Public Management (1998-99). He was one of the founders of the Partnership for Transparency (PTF) in the year 2000 (www.ptfund.org) and was its President (2000-2010).

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How to Complete the "Checklist" for Advance Planning
2021-03-25 11:00 - 12:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A Presentation by the Members Helping Members Group
One of the ongoing tasks of Members Helping Members (MHM) has been to update and rework the “Handbook for Advance Planning by Retirees and Families for end of life planning“. From this document we extracted what we have called the “Sample Checklist for Advance Planning“, which enables one to keep in one place the information necessary for one’s loved ones, such as Credit Union/Bank details, passwords, Will etc. These documents are available on the 1818 website, under “member resources” then “aging resources” (login required).
Some of us have struggled to overcome our own resistance and inertia in compiling the information. During this workshop we will share experiences completing the document, including ways of helping one another to do so, and discussing the contents with loved ones. We will invite participants to share their stories too, so we can all learn from one another.
For more information, please contact Lesley Shneier (lshneier@1818alumniwbg.org), Pat Neill (pat.e.neill@gmail.com) or Jacomina de Regt (jacominaderegt@gmail.com)
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The European Green Deal and the Climate Friendly Recovery Plans: What is New? What is Promising?
2021-03-24 11:00 - 13:00 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A presentation by the 1818 Society Energy Thematic Group
The end of 2020, 5 years after the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement marked a new phase for the Agreement. The 196 participating countries were requested to submit updated and,hopefully, more ambitious targets for 2030 (the so-called national determined contributions, or NCDs) as well as long-term mitigation strategies (LTS) to meet the Agreement’s temperature goals. The European Union kicked off this next round of global cooperation with the European Green Deal and a COVID-19 Recovery Plan with sizable funding for green investments.
The European Union accounts only for slightly less than 7% of global GHG emissions, in fourth place after China (28 %), the USA (15%) and India (7%). However, the EU und some of its member countries have been at the forefront of testing and implementing effective climate and clean energy policies. Even if the impact of further absolute EU emissions reductions will be marginal, what nudging function can Europe play?
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Marianne Haug, is a Distinguished Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies (OIES), Oxford University, UK. She lectures and advises on clean energy policies, innovation and investments primarily in Europe. After a career at the World Bank, she served as Director at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, then headed the Forum für Zukunftsenergien in Berlin, and the Advisory Group for Energy at the European Commission in Brussels, while teaching Energy Economics and Sustainable Development at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart.

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Her Right to Equality, From Promise to Power
2021-03-23 11:00 - 12:00 | WebEx & MC 10-300
On the occasion of the International Women’s Month, the Gender and Development Thematic Group of the 1818 Society cordially invites you to a discussion of a recently launched book by a former colleague, Nisha Agrawal, titled: “Her Right to Equality, From Promise to Power” In this book, Nisha discusses why progress on gender equality has been so slow in so many areas and what needs to be done to accelerate progress. We are equally pleased that another colleague, Isabelle Guerrero, has agreed to be the commentator.
Speaker: Nisha Agrawal is an economist who has worked on poverty, inequality and social development issues for more than 30 years. She was the first CEO of Oxfam India for 10 years from 2008-2018. During this period, she focused Oxfam’s work on the most lagging states and the most marginalized groups. Prior to that, Nisha worked with the World Bank for almost 20 years. She has extensive experience working in countries in the East Asia Region (especially Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia) and in the East Africa Region (Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda). Prior to that, for four years, Nisha was a Research Associate at the Impact Research Centre at Melbourne University in Australia. Nisha has a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Currently, Nisha is an active member of civil society networks and organizations promoting social justice, with a special interest in promoting gender equality.
Commentator: Isabel Guerrero is a former VP for South Asia between 2008 and 2013. Before that she was a Country Director for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Peru, and Paraguay. She has spent the last six years building IMAGOGG, a nonprofit that works with grassroots, social entrepreneurs, and governments around the world to scale up innovations from the Base of the Pyramid. Since 2014, she also teaches “Scaling up for Development Impact” at Harvard Kennedy School, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation. From 2014 to 2017 she was a Senior Lecturer on leadership at MIT Sloan School. Isabel received her MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and trained as a psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society. Isabel sits on the Board of the UN University and is a frequent guest at CNN Dinero and is part of the UN High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation.
Moderator: Ajay Chhibber is Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Institute for International Economic Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He was earlier the first Director General (Minister of State) , Independent Evaluation Office, Government of India and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), India – affiliated institute of the Ministry of Finance. He held senior positions at the UN as Assistant Secretary General and Assistant Administrator, UNDP. At the World Bank he served as Country Director in Turkey and Vietnam. He was also Director of the 1997 World Development Report on the Role of the State. He has a Ph. D from Stanford University, a MA from the Delhi School of Economics. He also has attended advanced management programs at the Harvard Business School, Harvard University and INSEAD, France. He taught at Georgetown University and at the University of Delhi. He has published widely including 5 books in development economics and is a contributor (columnist) to several newspapers.
Host: Nadereh Chamlou is the co-chair of the 1818 Society’s Gender and Development Thematic Group. She is a former Senior Advisor at the Word Bank and a current nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. She serves as board member of several NGOs focusing on gender equality, entrepreneurship and innovation . She is the recipient of The International Alliance for Women’s 2015 “Making a Difference” global award.

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Washington Beltway Expansion
2021-03-18 12:00 - 14:00
A presentation by the 1818 Society Transport Thematic Group
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Brad German – Chairman of the “Citizens Against Beltway Expansion”. Mr. German was a senior director of public relations for Freddie Mac prior to his retirement in 2017. His responsibilities included working with Congress, managing media relations, and product marketing and development. Prior to joining Freddie Mac in 1998 he held similar positions in other companies in the financial sector. and also worked as a senior editor of Builder Magazine. He grew up in Cleveland, graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1978 with a degree in philosophy, after which he moved to Washington DC. He lives in Bethesda Md with his wife of 32 years and has two grown children.
Mr. German will provide information on the arguments for and against the proposed expansion of the Washington Beltway, I-270, and the American Legion Memorial Bridge. We are likely to have quite an animated discussion of this very relevant topic for those of us who are living here.
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The World Bank Articles of Agreement Over Time
2021-03-17 10:00 - 11:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
Did you know the World Bank has three birthdays? The first was at Bretton Woods Conference in July 1944 where 44 nations came together to envision a peaceful and prosperous world after the Second World War, and where the World Bank’s Articles of Agreement were drafted. The second was the ratification of the Articles of Agreement 18 months later in December 1945, demonstrating the commitment of countries to the mission of the organization. The third was the first day of operations on June 25, 1946 when an international corps of professionals came together to create and implement policies and procedures of the newly formed organization. This panel discussion will look at the evolution of the Articles of Agreement over time, how they were formed, and how they have impacted the larger multilateral community.

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• Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank Managing Director of Operations. Since October 1, 2019, Mr van Trotsenburg has directed the Bank’s operational program and ensures that the Bank’s delivery model continues to meet the needs of client countries.
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• Zachary D. Carter is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
• Natalie Lichtenstein, Visiting Scholar @Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), was the Inaugural General Counsel, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and an Assistant General Counsel at the World Bank.
• Vikram Raghavan, Lead Counsel at the World Bank in Washington, DC. He received the Bretton Woods @75 award for his contributions to the Bank’s institutional knowledge and memory.

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CGIAR at 50 - Evolution, Reforms, Reflections
2021-03-16 13:00 - 14:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A presentation by the Agriculture and Rural Development Thematic Group

Summary:
The event will present a graphic overview of the 50 years, focusing on multiple parameters including, centers, donors and finance. Evolution of the mission of the CGIAR will be described illustrating its increasing complexity. The leadership role the World Bank and the Technical Advisory Committee have played during the initial decades will be shown, along with the changing leadership roles over the decades. Governance principles for the first forty years will be compared with those for the last decade. System reform efforts throughout the 50 years will be described along with reasons for their success/failure. The presentation will conclude with observations on the future of the System.

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Selçuk Özgediz served as Management Adviser at the CGIAR Secretariat and led the Secretariat’s Governance and Partnerships Team. Prior to CGIAR he served as a member of the World Bank’s World Development Report core team, carrying out research on the management of public service in developing countries. Before joining the Bank, Özgediz was Assistant Professor at Bogazici University, Istanbul, where he taught public policy, research methods, and statistics. He studied Economics at Middle East Technical University (Ankara) and Mathematical Statistics (MS) and Political Science (MA, PhD) at Michigan State University. Among others, he is the author of CGIAR at 40—Institutional Evolution of the World’s Premier Agricultural Research Network (2012).
Karen Brooks served as Director, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets, led by IFPRI from 2012-2018. Prior to that she worked for 22 years at the World Bank, in the agricultural policy unit of the Center and in operational units of the ECA and Africa Regions. She holds a PhD in economics from The University of Chicago and began her professional career on the faculty of the Department of Applied Economics at The University of Minnesota. She has published in the areas of agricultural policy in transition economies and youth employment issues in Africa. She is currently adjunct professor in the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University.

Moderator: Kevin Cleaver – Chair, ARD TG
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Investment Outlook 2021
2021-03-12 14:00 - 15:30
The 1818 Society Global Finance Group (GFG) is pleased to invite members of the society to attend a virtual presentation on Investment Outlook 2021.
The presentation will cover the general financial market outlook including likely performance of major asset classes.
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Ivan Zelenko – Director and Chief Investment Officer, Deputy Pension Finance Administrator-Pension and Endowments Department. Ivan Zelenko is Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Pension and Endowments Department at the World Bank. The Department manages about $34 billion of pension and other retirement benefit portfolios invested across a range of asset classes, including fixed income, public and private equity, real assets, private credit, and absolute return strategies. Prior to assuming these responsibilities, he was Director of Quantitative Solutions, Strategic Asset Allocation and Analytics at the World Bank Treasury, where he was responsible for providing quantitative support to Treasury activities.
Ivan has had a long-standing career at the World Bank, having been Director of Market and Counterparty Risk in the CRO VP, and Head of Derivatives and Structured Finance in Treasury. Ivan joined World Bank in 2000, following an early career in capital markets and financial management at the French Financial Institution Caisse des Dépôts, and at the Strategy Department of BNP.
Ivan graduated from Sciences-Po and Ponts et Chaussées and holds a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Paris Sorbonne.

Gabriel Petre – Lead Investment Strategist. Gabriel Petre leads the team responsible for developing the asset allocation and ESG integration strategy for the World Bank’s post-retirement benefit funds. As part of his work he is also involved in advising public pension funds of developing countries on governance, investment policy and asset allocation issues and official institutions of commodity-rich countries in setting up sovereign wealth funds.

He joined the World Bank Treasury in July 2006. Before joining the World Bank, he worked for 3 years at the National Bank of Romania, as part of the team in charge of the Foreign Reserves portfolio. He has an MBA from Georgetown McDonough School of Business and is a CFA and CAIA charterholder.

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Cities, Slums, and COVID: What Have We Learned?
2021-03-04 11:00 - 12:30
This presentation is a continuation of the Urban & Water TG’s “Talk Shop” series.
During this session, the speakers will share what we have learned about risks to the population, approaches to addressing the pandemic and some of the priorities cities will need to consider as they attempt to build back better. The session will include a particular focus on COVID’s impact on those living in slums and how governments and NGOs have innovated to address this vulnerable population.
Presenters’ Bio:
Sameh Wahba is the Global Director for the World Bank’s Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience, and Land Global Practice. The Practice has over $30bn in lending commitments and 400 staff. Mr Wahba holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from Harvard University and has 25 years’ experience in urban development, land, housing, disaster risk management, infrastructure, and sustainable development.
Judy Baker is a Global Co-Lead for the Global Solutions Group on Urban Poverty, Inclusive Cities and Housing and Lead Economist for the Africa Urban Team. She has worked extensively across the World Bank on projects and analytical work, on topics related to urbanization and its impacts, urban poverty, slum upgrading, service delivery, affordable housing, climate change, and impact evaluation. She has published six books, as well as produced numerous country and regional reports.
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How to Get Comfortable in Your Work-From-Home Space For Retirees
2021-02-25 11:00 - 12:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A webinar by the Members Helping Members (MHM) Group

Members Helping Members teams with Leo Malca to offer a webinar on making your home work space more comfortable. Even though we’re retired, we are spending time on Zoom or Facetime or WebEx these days, whether for work, family time, happy hour with friends etc. Leo Malca is a fellow retiree who has partnered with the Bank’s Health and Safety Directorate’s Ergo Team to offer regular webinars to staff in all Bank offices.

Speaker: Leo Malca, a Bank retiree, has a BA in Psychology. She is a Certified Ergonomist, Yoga Teacher and a Fitness/Wellness Coach. Leo worked for the Bank for over 30 years and now is working as a consultant with the Ergo Team in HSD. She will share the workshop she has been offering to Bank staff throughout the pandemic to help you make your home-office a better and safer place to work, emphasizing setting up your space, stretching and breathing to help your body feel great!
This workshop will show you how to set up – or further refine – a safe and comfortable home workspace using tools available around the house. Even if you are spending time on your couch or at your dining table, you can still take a few moments to set yourself up to avoid back, neck, shoulder and arm discomfort. Taking short breaks from the computer is important. This interactive presentation will provide tips on how to take breaks, stretch, and pay attention to your breath. Leo will teach you short and easy ways to de-stress while seated or standing close to your laptop or computer.
For questions please contact the moderator: Lesley Shneier (lshneier@1818alumniwbg.org)
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The Future of the International Oil Companies: Creative Destruction or Green Reincarnation?
2021-02-24 11:00 - 12:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A presentation by the 1818 Society Energy Thematic Group

The international oil companies (IOCs) battled dual disasters in 2020. First, the lock-downs resulting from the Covid pandemic caused a drop in demand that precipitated a 70% fall in oil prices. Second, spreading concerns over climate change caused major shareholders to divest. In response, most IOCs have announced plans to cut emissions and invest more in renewables. But can this succeed or are the markets and the public already set on a course to shift their resources to new and greener competitors in a classic case of ‘creative destruction’ of an industry caught on the wrong side of history?
Speaker: Dame Deanne Julius
Dame Deanne Julius is an international economist and founder member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. She has chaired the Council of Chatham House and University College London (UCL). She holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of California and her early career was with the World Bank. She later became chief economist at Shell and then at British Airways. More recently, she has been a non-executive director on the corporate boards of BP, Roche, Deloitte, Lloyds Bank, Serco and Jones Lang LaSalle. She has also served on the advisory boards of Temasek, the China Investment Corporation, Chatham House Panel of Senior Advisors, and Rock Creek Global, a Washington based investment firm. For more information, please visit her website, http://deannejulius.com/
Moderator: Michael Gillette

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The Lessons and Results from 30 Years of Dissemination of Vetiver Grass Technology, and the Vetiver Network
2021-02-23 13:00 - 14:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A presentation by the Agriculture and Rural Development Thematic Group
“It can take a generation or more to introduce a technical innovation…can social media shorten that? The story & lessons from almost 30 years of development/dissemination of Vetiver Grass Technology, a tool for climate change adaptation and community resilience.”
Speakers:
Dick Grimshaw – His career began in 1963 as an agricultural extension worker and soil surveyor/land use/soil conservation planner in Zambia. This was followed by 6 years with World Bank’s Agricultural Development Service, working in southern and eastern Africa. From 1972 to 1994, Dick was an agriculturist in the Bank, working in West Africa, India, and China amongst others. Over that time he was the Bank’s Agriculture Division Chief in both Nigeria (and covering other west African countries) and India, and subsequently, Division Chief for the Asia Technical Agricultural Department (ASTAG). While in India, he recognized the potential for of Vetiver Grass, which was used there traditionally, not only for the for the aromatic oils extracted from its roots, but also by for soil and moisture conservation, as a fodder grass, and for field boundary demarcation. From then on he was closely involved with the early promotion of Vetiver Grass Technology in India, from 1982 to1987, and afterwards in the Bank’s watershed management portfolio in Asia, and globally. On retiring from the Bank in 1994, he founded The Vetiver Network International (TVNI), which continues today.
Jim Smyle – worked for 18 years in the World Bank, beginning in 1988 for Dick Grimshaw, in ASTAG, as a Watershed Management Specialist. He retired from the Bank in 2006 as a Sr. Natural Resources Management Specialist, and has continued to work as an independent consultant in natural resources, rural development, climate change, and social issues for World Bank, IFAD, and Asian Development Bank, amongst others. Over the entire time he has been active in working with Dick and TVNI on the promotion and dissemination of Vetiver Grass Technology.
Background information on VGT may be found on TVNI’s website
Moderator: Kevin Cleaver – Chair, ARD TG
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1818 Society Seminar on U.S. Federal Income Taxes
2021-02-18 13:00 - 14:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
The 1818 Society’s Tax and Immigration Committee is pleased to invite you to an online WebEx seminar on U.S. Federal Income Taxes and Foreign Financial Asset Reporting. The seminar will be of primary interest to members of the Society who are U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents.

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Mr. Dale W. Mason, CPA, is the Founder of Dale Mason, CPA & Co. (Website: www.dalemasoncpa.com), which advises international organization staff and retirees, U.S. expatriates and other clients on international and domestic tax matters. Prior to establishing his firm in 2019, Dale acquired many years of experience practising international tax consultancy work in Central Europe, California and Washington, DC with global accounting firms including Arthur Anderson, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and KPMG. He has been a featured speaker at seminars hosted by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations.
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Deane Jordan, Chair – 1818 Society Tax and Immigration Committee

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The seminar will focus particularly on: (i) recent tax developments affecting U.S. personal income taxes; (ii) the preparation of U.S. Federal income tax returns for 2020; (iii) reporting the Bank SRP pension and other foreign financial accounts and assets on Form 8938 (Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets); and (iv) reporting 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) which may possibly affect a U.S. citizen who renounces U.S. nationality or a U.S. permanent resident who terminates U.S. residency.
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International Water Scarcity and Variability—Managing Resource Use Across Political Boundaries
2021-02-18 11:00 - 12:30
A presentation by The 1818 Society Urban & Water Thematic Group
(Continuation of the Urban & Water TG’s “Talk Shop” series)

Speaker: Dr. Ariel Dinar, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside. He served as Lead Economist on Water and Climate Change at the World Bank. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal of Water Economics and Policy. He is an International Fellow of the Center for Agricultural Economic Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Fulbright Senior Specialist, and a 2015 Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. His research and teaching touch upon the economics of water resources, international water management, climate change and water resources, and strategic behavior of water users.
Host: Alex Bakalian
Facilitator: Rory O’Sullivan

The presentation will provide an interdisciplinary approach for considering international water management under conditions of increased scarcity and variability (both present and future as a result of climate change). It will apply a theory that is rooted in the disciplines of international relations and economics to the analysis of scarcity, variability, and cooperation over transboundary freshwater. It will demonstrate the usefulness of the theory using global datasets of transboundary water bodies (documented treaties, water availability, water variability, water-related events) and several in-depth case-studies of specific basins. It will also discuss strategies and other forms of incentives that help assuage conflict and motivate cooperation despite scarcity and variability.
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New York City Transport & COVID-19
2021-02-11 12:00 - 13:30
A presentation by the 1818 Society Transport Thematic Group

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Michael Replogle is an internationally recognized expert in the field of sustainable transport. He co-founded the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) in 1985, a nonprofit organization that promotes environmentally sustainable transport projects and policies worldwide. He was president of ITDP from 1985-1992 and 1998-2009, and managing director of ITDP from 2009-2015.
Following a meeting at the Brazilian Embassy to honor Jaime Lerner (the Mayor of Curitiba), Michael, who was actively critical of the lack of attention by the World Bank to Non-Motorized Vehicles (NMVs), was recruited as a consultant for the World Bank by Peter Midgley in 1990 to undertake a review of NMVs in Asia (as part of the “Urban Transport in Asia: An Operational Agenda for the 1990s” published in 1994). Michael provided the first comprehensive overview ever undertaken of the use of NMVs in Asian cities that provided the basis for Bank policies to promote NMVs in Asia and elsewhere. His review was published by the Bank as a Technical Paper in 1992 (“Non-motorized vehicles in Asian cities”).
He has served on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Transportation and he was the Transport Director of the Environmental Defense Fund where he promoted more efficient mobility with a smaller environmental footprint.
Michael has three decades of experience shaping transportation and land use policies to support better mobility and economic development, working with both the public and private sector. He has expertise in public policy, public private partnerships, innovative transportation incentives and finance, road and public transportation system engineering and asset management, road pricing, environmental appraisal and policy, planning, and public involvement strategies.
Michael was appointed Deputy Commissioner for Policy of the New York City Department of Transportation in 2015 to develop strategy and advise the city on transportation issues. He manages DOT’s Policy Division which is preparing as agency-wide strategic plan, advancing Vision Zero efforts to eliminate road-crash related deaths and serious injuries, and shaping freight and parking strategy, climate change mitigation and resilience, and shared mobility.

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Recent Offshore Wind Developments in the United States, Europe and East Asia
2021-01-27 11:00 - 12:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
Note: This event was moved from January 20 to January 27, 2021.

A presentation by the 1818 Society Energy Thematic Group.
Speakers:
Paul Kraske is a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, where he regularly represents clients in connection with the development, financing and acquisition of energy and infrastructure projects both in the U.S. and abroad. From 2000 until 2002, he worked in Mumbai, India for Enron as general counsel of the Dabhol Power Project. He is a graduate of Yale University, London School of Economics, and Harvard Law School.
Dana Younger is currently a senior advisor to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) in Brussels, a member-based organization that represents the global wind energy sector as well as its constituent national associations. He retired from the World Bank Group in 2019 after nearly 30 years and helped IFC build its portfolio of >$5 billion of wind, solar and other clean energy investments.
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Eugene McCarthy
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Innovative Technologies for the Water Sector
2021-01-21 11:00 - 12:30
A presentation by The 1818 Society Urban & Water Thematic Group

Speaker: Blanca Antizar, European Director, Isle Utilities (a UK-based consulting company advising water and wastewater utilities on innovative processes and technologies). Her presentation is a continuation of the Urban & Water TG’s “Talk Shop” series.

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The Challenges of Forest Conservation & Ecological Restoration: Experiences from Latin America
2021-01-19 09:00 - 11:00 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A joint presentation by the 1818 Society Agriculture & Rural Development and Social & Environment Thematic Groups.

Chair: John Redwood – former Director of the Environmental and Social Sustainability Department for Latin America at the World Bank.
Moderator: Emmanuel D’Silva, an agriculture and environment specialist involved with a tree-planting initiative in the Himalayas
Speakers:
Kevin Cleaver and Maria Nikolov will speak of their experiences in managing a farm and a forest concession in Peru. Title: “A private-public partnership to conserve part of the Peruvian Amazon.” Both worked at the World Bank. Kevin was the Director of Agriculture Department and also Associate Vice President at IFAD in Rome. Maria is from Peru.
Harry Assenmacher and Christian Schmidt will do a presentation on the work of ForestFinance, a for-profit organization involved in reforestation in Panama. Harry is CEO of ForestFinance. Christian is a Bank retiree. For details, see: http://www.forestfinance.de

Florent Kaiser on “Scaling up native forest ecosystems in the Andes.” He is Executive Director of Global Forest Generation, an international NGO. For details, see: www.globalforestgeneration.org
The presenters will try to address some of the following issues:
1. Climate change: The general view is that massive tree planting will help mitigate the climate crisis. How successful are current efforts based on your experience? What more could be done?
2. Participation: Public involvement and local community participation is regarded as key to planting and conservation. What is your experience in this area?
3. Products and services: The livelihoods of a billion people are said to depend on forests. What unique products and services could be tapped or developed that could benefit a larger economy or the forest-dependent? (Any good examples of payment for ecological services, carbon credits, developing physical products for sale?)
4. Funding: Many reforestation and afforestation efforts suffer from insufficient funds and often depend on foreign donors. What creative ways have you used to source funds locally and globally?
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DIG DEEP: A Seminar on Perseverance to Accomplish Lifelong Goals in Active Retirement
2020-12-09 14:00 - 15:30
Sponsored by the 1818 Hiking Club and the 1818 Yoga Club

Join us for a talk with World Bank retiree Diana Corbin about her quest for the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Diana Corbin is very likely the first Bank retiree and staff member to have completed the Triple Crown. Having previously completed an epic swim of more than 17 hours from Catalina Island to the California mainland, and then a swim around Manhattan Island in nine and a half hours, Diana took on the challenge of swimming the English Channel in 2019. She will talk about her swimming experiences and eventual success in joining an elite club of 226 people who have achieved the triple crown.
“Nothing great is easy.” — Captain Matthew Webb
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Diana Corbin joined the Bank in 1996 and retired in 2019. She first worked in the Operations Evaluation Department (now Independent Evaluation Group) for six years then in Trust Fund Quality and Compliance and finally Energy and Extractives Global Practice.
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'Bt Cotton in India'
2020-12-08 13:00 - 14:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A presentation by the 1818 Society Agriculture and Rural Development Thematic Group
Presenter: Dr. Keshav Kranthi
Moderator: Kevin Cleaver
Dr. Kranthi is currently head of the Technical Division of International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), Washington DC. He was previously the Director of India’s Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR). His presentation will focus on the long-term impacts of Bt Cotton in India. There has been an almost a total switch to Bt Cotton in India. Cotton productivity has increased significantly. However, Dr. Kranthi’s research shows that adopting Bt crops is not a silver bullet, especially when it comes to reducing the cost of pesticides. There are many other issues concerning the performance of Bt Cotton in India such as low yields, yield stagnation, high fertilizer use, degraded soils, Bt-resistant pink bollworms, white flies, leaf curl virus, among others. The presentation will discuss strategies to deal with these issues.
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'The Carbon Killers'
2020-12-07 11:00 - 12:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A presentation by the 1818 Society Energy Thematic group.

Hal Wackman is a Canadian national, with degrees in civil engineering, hydropower engineering and business administration, he had a distinguished career in the Bank, first in the former Industrial Project Department, and then as Country Director for Kenya based in Nairobi, before retiring in the early 2000.He has traveled extensively and knows most regions of the developing world.
The novel, ‘The Carbon Killers‘, revolves around a series of bold actions needed to solve the climate crisis. It takes place during the 2020’s in different regions of the developed and developing world. Most of the novel’s main characters are women, determined to take the needed emergency measures to resolve the climate change crisis. Predictably, there is strong resistance to their efforts -both from bureaucrats and fossil fuel interests- which lead to an exciting climax.
Please click this link to find out more about the novel, how to purchase it, and read some of the reviews.

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The Rise of Women in the Bank - Breaking the Glass Ceilings
2020-12-02 10:00 - 12:00 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A joint presentation by 1818 Society Gender and WB History Thematic Group and the World Bank Group Library
In his recent address at the 1818 Society 2020 Annual Meetings, President Malpass was happy to report that the WBG top management is now 50/50 gender balanced. This is a long way from the days when there were very few women in management, and the so-called “professional grades”, and when even those women entering the Bank with Masters and PhD degrees had to pass a typing test.
On the occasion of this historic year that marks the centenary of women’s right to vote and the election of the first woman Vice President in the US, the Gender & Development and the History Thematic Groups of the 1818 Society cordially invite you a to a panel discussion on the topic of “Breaking Glass Ceilings”. The webinar will review the history of the status of women at WBG through the eyes and experiences of those who made it happen and some early pioneers that broke through the glass ceilings.
Moderators: Charles Ziegler, Nadereh Chamlou, Dominique Lallement, Charlotte Jones-Carroll
Confirmed Speakers: Sylvia Browne, Marianne Haug, Katherine Marshall, Anette Pedersen, Leticia Obeng, and Ismael Serageldin.
Special address: Kristalina Giorgieva
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Stay Cyber Safe from Cyber Criminals!
2020-11-18 11:00 - 12:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
Email has become virtually a universal mode of communication for all of us. It is hard to imagine how we managed before the invent of email. But this has also opened opportunities for fraud and theft by criminals and fraudsters, who have become increasingly clever in enticing you to open emails that can result in your personal details being stolen or your email being used for nefarious purposes. This is often referred to as phishing. In addition, cyber criminals are increasingly using the phone to trick unaware users into releasing their personal information which they use for financial gain or to cause harm. This is referred to as vishing which is phishing over the phone. There are other new and old techniques that cyber criminals use against the users which will be covered in this webinar to help you stay cyber-safe and prepared to respond if you are targeted with such attacks.
Chair: Inder Sud
Speaker: Vaman Kini, Senior Information Security Officer, WBG Office of Information Security
Vaman leads the Information Security Operations Center (ISOC), a key function of the World Bank Group Office of Information Security. ISOC is responsible for detecting, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity attacks against the WBG institutions and users. It operates 24×7 from Washington DC, United States, and Chennai, India. As the ISOC Lead, Vaman stays one step ahead of cyber criminals to stop any cyber-attack against the World Bank Group. In his role, Vaman has a unique insight into the tactics used by cyber criminals and deep technical understanding of the methods the criminals use to trick unsuspecting victims into cyber traps. Vaman has extensive experience in delivering cybersecurity training and speaking engagements to raise WBG users’ awareness of current and emerging cyber threats and help them prepare to defend themselves from these attacks.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Vaman spent 11 years in the Indian Armed Forces specializing in Cyber Security. He started his career as an IT system and network administrator. Vaman has a Master’s Degree in Cyber Security and Cyber Law and major certifications in the cybersecurity field such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
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Presentation of 'One CGIAR' to WB Retirees
2020-11-09 13:00 - 14:30 | WebEx & MC 10-300
A presentation by the 1818 Society Agriculture and Rural Development Thematic Group

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Marco Ferroni has wide-ranging experience accumulated during a career in corporate philanthropy, government, and multilateral organizations. He currently advises public, private, and social sector partners on agriculture, food systems and sustainable productivity growth. In addition to serving as Chair of the Board of the CGIAR System Organization, he is on the board of the Global Institute for Food Security at the University of Saskatchewan and recently completed terms as an Adjunct Professor in Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at McGill University.
From 2007 to 2017, he was Executive Director of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, a developer and incubator of scalable solutions for smallholder farmers in low-income countries and emerging markets. Prior to this, he was an Executive Director at the Inter-American Investment Corporation and a board member and Alternate Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank, where he also served as Deputy Manager of the Sustainable Development Department. He was also a Senior Advisor to the World Bank’s corporate focal point on funder relations, concessional resources, and partnerships. Earlier in his career he was a development economist and trade diplomat in foreign economic affairs in his native Switzerland. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics.
He has served as Chair of the CGIAR System Board since his appointment in July 2017.
Click here to read the One CGIAR: A bold set of recommendations to the System Council
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