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VOLUNTEER ADVISERS
Vinay Bhargava served
as Senior Advisor for Public Sector Governance and External Affairs
at the World Bank in 2006-7. From 2002 to 2006, he was World Bank
Director of International Affairs and Operations. He was
responsible for outreach to civil society organizations, and
operations management for the World Bank's External and United
Nations Affairs Vice-Presidency. From October 1995 to July 2001 he
served as the World Bank's Resident Representative and Country
Director for the Philippines. Vinay has over 25 years of experience
in the design and implementation of economic development projects
and strategies in South Asia, East Asia, Western Africa, Eastern
Europe and Middle East with a special interest in governance and
anti-corruption; global development issues; and the design and
evaluation of development projects, programs, and donor assistance
strategies. Vinay was the lead author of the World Bank report on
Combating Corruption in the Philippines (2000), and Challenging
Corruption in Asia. He contributed a chapter to the book The Many
Faces of Corruption, published by the World Bank in 2007.Jorge Barientos from Chile is an independent consultant on social development issues with a special interest in governance. He served in the World Bank for 20 years before retiring in 1998. During his last years at the Bank, Jorge's work was focused on preparing guidelines on implementation issues in investment projects in the social sectors. Previously he held the position of Resident Representative in Venezuela, Senior Advisor to the Director in charge of operations in six Western African countries, and Deputy Division Chief in the Industrial Projects Department. Before joining the World Bank he worked with a British engineering and consulting firm and earlier as a management consultant in Chile. Jorge holds a degree in industrial engineering from the Catholic University of Chile.
Rudolph van der Bijl is an independent consultant in the area of financial sector development in emerging markets. From 2000-2002, he headed the Capital Markets Unit in the Private Sector Department of the Inter-American Development Bank.Prior to this, he was for thirty years with the Capital Markets Department of the International Finance Corporation. He was involved in a wide variety of financial sector investment projects and technical assistance activities in some sixty developing countries. Areas of activity included commercial and investment banking, private equity,leasing, housing finance, asset management and securities market development. His work included membership of boards of directors of some fifteen private sector financial institutions over the years. Rudolph is a Dutch national who grew up, studied and worked internationally in the Netherlands, Venezuela, Switzerland, Germany,Belgium and the US. He has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Munich and is fluent in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
Jerome Chevallier is a French national with Docotorates in Law and Economics from the University of Paris. He is a development practitioner with broad experience on macro-economic policy, economic reform and project management. Recently he has worked as a consultant on many assignments in Africa and Eastern Europe, including being responsible for the formulating proposals on the use of Chad`s oil revenues and in preparing corruption vulnerability scans in the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.
Jorge Claro is from Chile and lives in
the US.He is a government procurement expert with more than 35
years of experience in public sector management, the formulation
and execution of procurement policies and procedures and the design
and evaluation of projects. He worked for UNDP and the
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) where he was Chief of
Procurement Policy. Jorge has been a private consultant since 2000,
carrying out many high-level assignments, including the drafting of
public procurement legislation for the National People`s Congress,
People`s Republic of China; Principal Procurement Adviser to the
Organization of American States; leading an analytical study on the
procurement framework and institutional capabilities of the Central
American Common Market Countries in relation to the FTAA; drafting
of the procurement policies of the Central American Bank for
Economic Integration; as well as advisory and training services for
the UN and UNDP. He also served as Director of the Center for
Public Procurement Law and Policy of the International Law
Institute (ILI) and has lectured at Georgetown University in
Washington, D.C. In 2007, Jorge founded the International
Procurement Institute, INPRI, a center of excellence in Government
Procurement (www.inpri.org). Jorge holds an MBA from
the University of Leeds in the UK.
Stephanie de Chassy is an organization development specialist, currently consulting with the World Bank Institute Governance team. From July 2007 to August 2009, she worked as an advisor to an NGO in Orissa, India. From 2003 to 2007, Stephanie was the Chief Operating Officer of OneWorld.net. She also ran the Strategic Communication for Nonprofits Institute. She has held various strategic marketing positions at France Telecom, Visa and American Express and Cable and Wireless. She received her MBA from Thunderbird and a business degree from a business school in France.
Dante Delos Angeles was President/CEO
of a leading development consulting firm (Top 5000 Corporations) in
the Philippines and has over 30 years of experience in procurement
and implementation management of projects in integrated area
development, natural sources/environmental management, and
institution capacity building. He served in the public sector as a
consultant, Speaker of the Philippine House of Representative;
deputy director in the Office of the Prime Minister and Department
of Labor and Employment. He has a Masters in education in
management from the Asian Institute of Management, and in economics
from the University of the Philippines. 
Steve Ettinger is a US economist with a PhD from Michigan University who worked first in Botswana and subsequently for much of his career in the World Bank as a projects` manager covering countries in both Asia and Latin America.He is now retired and an expert canoeist. He has led PTF`s partnership with ICD/FONTRA since its inception.
Prem Garg retired in December 2007 as the Director, Quality Assurance Group at the World Bank, having served in a variety of operational, advisory and executive positions for over 34 years. Prem is an internationally recognized leader in improving organizational performance through innovative approaches to strengthening managerial accountabilities and systemic learning. He has hands-on experience in over 40 countries across the globe in planning, appraising and supervising development projects and programs. He did his Ph.D. in Engineering Economic systems from the Stanford University following his B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is an Indian citizen with home base in USA.
Robert Hindle is a US institutional specialist with special expertise in fiduciary accountability and compliance. He served in the World Bank for 32 years after a stint in the US Treasury. He has a PhD in international politics from Claremont Graduate University in California. In the World Bank he was senior manager of the Institutional Integrity Department and he held various other management positions including Resident Representative in Yeman and Resident deputy Director in Egypt. His last position was as a Managing Director in the Millenium Development Corporation.
Claude Hovnanian is a French engineer who has specialized in recent years on procurement systems. He worked for some 15 years for the World Bank with project management experience in many African countries. Since retiring in 1999, he has undertaken a number of assignments on behalf of Transparency International.
Lars Jeurling is a Swedish MBA and economist who worked at the World Bank for over 25 years as a manager and project specialist in infrastructure and private sector development. Lars spent four years working for the World Bank stationed in Indonesia and six years in the Baltic countries. After leaving the World Bank, he continues to work on private sector development as a private sector entrepreneur focusing on small enterprises and in Eastern Europe as a partner in a private equity partnership. He is a board member and investor in several small companies in Sweden and the United States.
Bob Liebenthal is an independent
consultant resident in Zambia. He is a member of the editorial
board of Zambia Analysis, a recently established bi-monthly
magazine covering business, finance, economics and development
issues in Zambia and a member of the executive committee of the
Economics Association of Zambia. Prior to his retirement from the
World Bank in 2002, he held various management positions, including
Chief of the Human Development Division for Russia and Central
Asia, Country Manager for Malawi and Adviser for Partnerships and
External Relations in the Africa region.
Michael Lippe is from the United
States. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the
Harvard Law School. He began his international career as a District
Council Advisor in Botswana in 1968, and subsequently worked for
two years in Botswana`s Ministry of Local Government and Lands,
dealing with land matters and urban development. Michael then
worked at the World Bank for one year, and in 1976 began a 20-year
career with the USAID, where he lived for extended periods in
Africa, and eventually became USAID`s Director for Housing and
Urban Programs. He retired in 1996 and has worked ever since as an
independent consultant, specializing in local government and
organizational management issues in assignments throughout the
world.Ruud Meir is a training specialist with special interest in the institutional aspects of development.
Most of his professional career has been in urban management and planing, working at different times in Nicaragua, Peru, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Burkina Faso, among other assignments. Ruud has Dutch nationality with a PhD in urban engineering.
Bruce Murray, a Canadian
citizen, spent
27 years at the
Asian Development Bank holding at various
times the positions of
director general of evaluation; country director in China; manager
of ADB's country programs in China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and
the Kyrgyz Republic; and transport economist. Since retiring he has
undertaken consulting assignments with IMF, IFAD, IFC and UNDP and
taught modules on China and evaluation at the Asian Institute of
Management. Prior to joining ADB he was a consultant and provincial
government economist in Canada. He has a special interest in
institutional issues. 
Knud
Nielsen is from Denmark. He
served in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for more than 25
years in the field of development cooperation and retiredin 2002.
From 1976-80 he was head of the Danish DANIDA mission toBangladesh,
and from1984-90 he headed the mission to Tanzania in chargeof
Denmark's largest bilateral programme. He ended his assignments
abroad as Head of Mission for the Royal Danish Embassy in
Bangladesh.He was responsible for the formulation and
implementation of Denmark'ssector strategy programmes for
Tanzania and Bangladesh.He served as deputy head of Asia Division
in the ministry and concluded his careerby formulating
Denmark's bilateral programme to Afghanistan. He was involved
in the establishment of Transparency International's chapter in
Bangladesh and acted as a liaison between Transparency
International and UN while in New York, where he was instrumental
in inclusion of the anti corruption principle in the Secretary
General's Global Compact. Knud Kjaer Nielsen is an engineer by
profession.
Javier Osorio has worked as a Civil Society Specialist for the World Bank office in Mexico. In this capacity, he was the Task Team Leader for (a) the Mexico Development Marketplace 2007 to fund proposals from CSOs on transparency and accountability, indigenous development and sustainable community development and (b) the project "Youth in Transparency" in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also did a number of Social Assessments, was a Coordinator for the Forum on Democratic Governance as part of the project "Political Transition" in Mexico, and organized the "International Conference on Growth and Equality, The World Bank" at the DAvid Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies of Harvard University, in Mexico City.
Chris Redfern is from UK and lives in Italy. He served as an economist with the World Bank for over 20 years, mostly working on agriculture projects in the West Africa and East Asia regions, where he was responsible for the Bank`s rural development and natural resources programs in Cambodia. He now works as a consultant in sustainable rural development with various international organizations and trust funds.
Khalid Siraj is currently doing
consultancy work for the World Bank`s Independent Evaluation Group,
Quality Assurance Group and Operations Policy Department. Khalid
served as Senior Adviser concurrently to the Ministry of Finance,
Government of Pakistan and State Bank of Pakistan (the central
bank), from February 2000 to July 2004 advising on and facilitating
implementation of financial sector reforms with a special interest
in institutional reforms. Khalid worked for the World Bank from
1974-1999. Latterly, he served as the Operations Advisor covering
policy advice and monitoring of financial sector operations,
quality enhancement and strategic advice. Khalid has an MBA from
the University of Kharachi/Wharton School.David Steedman is a technical specialist in public sector management who has had 30 years of experience in the design and implementation of administrative reform strategies throughout the developing world. He is also a specialist on governance and institutional development and capacity-building. He has a special interest in the recent evolution of reform with a broad comparative perspective of trends and techniques in the field. He has recently worked on anti-corruption programs in a wide range of countries, including: Tanzania, Mozambique, Romania and Indonesia. In addition to working in the World Bank, he has held academic and administrative positions at McGill University and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities. Canada. He has Canadian and Dutch nationality, a PhD from Yale and lives in Holland.
Michael Stevens is a UK national who now works as consultant on public finance systems. He has over 35 years experience in public management, much of it in the World Bank as a lead public sector development specialist, with a particular focus on public finance management in Anglophone Africa. He is a leading world expert on public finance accountability systems.
Cathy Stevulak is PTF Regional
Coordinator for Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet
Union. She an independent consultant with particular interest in
preventative measures for countering corruption and in the
governance of foreign assistance. Cathy has worked on a number of
assignments with the UNDP governance programme in Bangladesh.
Previously, she was Head of Planning and Publications and Deputy to
the Director of Information and Press at NATO, a communications
advisor for the Southern Europe programme of the Canadian
International Development Agency, and the liaison for CARE Canada
in working with the World Bank and IDB to encourage collaboration
with NGOs. Cathy volunteered with the Education for Democracy
English language education programme just after the Velvet
Revolution in Czechoslovakia and she most recently started a
programme for children with reading difficulties in Belize. Her
article on Supply Side Corruption was published in the Journal of
Corporate Citizenship, Spring 2008. Cathy is a Canadian with a
Master in Public Administration degree (Dalhousie
University).
Richard Stern has undertaken a
wide variety of challenging assignments related to equity
investment and finance in emerging markets after he retired from
the World Bank in 2001. At the World Bank he was successively a
program division chief, manager of a telecommunications division,
director of the energy, finance, mining and telecommunications
department, and finally vice-president for human resources. His
work has taken him to China, Japan, Indonesia, South Africa,
Botswana, Malawi, Ghana and many other developing countries. He
has a Masters degree in Development Economics from the University
of Sussex, UK and he is a UK citizen.
Roger Sullivan has had 31 years development experience with the World Bank working on a wide variety of tasks, mostly in Africa. He is a specialist in public sector reform. His recent assignments have included supporting governance reform in Kenya and Comores. He has also developed and managed large agricultural projects in Nigeria and Ghana and spearheaded civil service reform in Tanzania and Uganda. He is a a US citizen, now retired but working as a consultant. Roger is coordinating PTF programs in East and Southern Africa.
Bjorn Wellenius is a Chilean national.
He is an independent consultant on utility regulation and public
economics. He advises the World Bank Group (Washington, D.C.), law
and consulting firms in Europe and North America, and governments
and regulatory authorities. Until 1999, he was the World Bank`s
telecommunications adviser. Dr. Wellenius has experience in over 40
developing countries. He has published five books on
telecommunications and economic development as well as book
chapters, best practice notes, and technical papers on universal
service, rural infrastructure financing, competition policy,
spectrum management, and sector reform. He has PhD from the
University of Essex (England) and an engineering degree from
Universidad de Chile.