WASHINGTON, January 29, 2013 – The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Project on Prosperity & Development will host a Statesmen's Forum with World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim. The event will feature a panel discussion about challenges and opportunities around transparency in development. The panel appears below.
WHEN/WHERE:
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
B1 Conference Center
CSIS, 1800 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006
Credentialed members of the press who would like to attend must RSVP to aschwartz@csis.org
Follow #DevTransparency @CSIS
Featuring:
Jim Yong Kim
President, World Bank Group
Panelists:
Kaushik Basu
Senior Vice President, Development Economics and Chief Economist, World Bank
Nancy Boswell
Adjunct Associate Professor, American University Washington College of Law; Former President and CEO, Transparency International-USA
Janamitra Devan
Vice President and Head of Network Finance and Private Sector Development, World Bank
Gwendolyn Hines
United Kingdom Executive Director, World Bank
Gerald Hyman
Senior Advisor and President, Hills Program on Governance, CSIS; Former Director, Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID
Sanjay Pradhan
Vice President, World Bank Institute
Ian Solomon
United States Executive Director, World Bank
Mark Vlasic
Senior Fellow, Institute for Law, Science & Global Security
Moderated by:
Daniel F. Runde
Director of the Project on Prosperity and Development and William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, CSIS
With an Introduction by:
John J. Hamre
President and CEO, and The Pritzker Chair, CSIS
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