Name:Dr. Michael Hofmann
Position:Executive Director
Organisation:World Bank
Education
1974:Diploma, Political Sciences and Latin American Studies, Free University, Berlin, Germany1978:Ph.D. (Economics and Social Sciences), Free University, Berlin, Germany
1979:Post Graduate Studies, German Development Institute (GDI)
Background
1979-1980:Assistant to the Chairman, The Brandt Commission, ICIDI in Bonn, Geneva and London1980-1981:Fellow at the Research Institute of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn, Germany
1981-1988:Research Fellow, The German Development Institute (DIE), Berlin
1988-1992Advisor to former Chancellor Willy Brandt, Germany
1992-1995Chief of Staff for the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Germany
1995-1999Head, The International Department, Social Democratic Party (SPD), Germany
1999-Oct. 2007Director General, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany
Nov. 2007:Executive Director, The World Bank and Affiliates
Other Activities
Member of the Boards:Development Gateway Foundation (DGF);
Society for International Development (SID);
The Foundation of Development and Peace (SEF)
Mohsen A. Khalil, Director, Joint World Bank and International Finance Corporation Global Information and Communications Technologies Department.
Mohsen A. Khalil,is Director at the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the Global Information and Communication Technologies Department. Prior to this appointment, he was Director of IFC's Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa Department. He also served IFC as Chief Investment Officer in the Telecommunications, Transport, and Utilities Department. Before joining the World Bank Group, while also a Professor of Business at the AmericanUniversity of Beirut, Mr. Khalil served as Chief Advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Board Director of Lebanon's Autonomous Fund for Housing, and advisor to various governments and major corporations in the Middle East. He also worked with McKinsey & Co. Management Consultants, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and MITRE Corporation. Mr. Khalil holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, an M.Sc in management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, an M.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.Sc. in Physics from the AmericanUniversity of Beirut.
Samia Melhem, Senior Operations Officer, CITPO, GICT & Chair, e-Development Thematic Group, World Bank
Samia Melhem is a member of the e-Government practice group in the Global ICT department at the World Bank. Her current responsibilities include technical assistance and advisory services on ICT Policies. She is focused on ICT4D in a wide variety of sectors from telecoms policy and regulation to public sector reform, taxes, customs, trade, education, knowledge Economy and private sector development. In her last 20 years in the World Bank Group, Samia has held several positions in Africa, Middle East and Europe and Central Asia regions, Information Solutions Group and infoDev. Her expertise is mostly in planning, developing and implementing large scale information systems for governments, and on using ICT as a tool to support public administration reform. Samia also manages GICT's learning and training program and chairs the e-development Thematic Group. She holds degrees in Electrical Engineering (BS), Computer Sciences (MS)and Finance (MBA).
Randeep Sudan, Senior ICT Specialist, CITPO, GICT, World Bank
Randeep Sudan, is a Senior ICT Policy Specialist with the Global ICT Department (GICT) of the World Bank. He leads GICT's practices on e-Government and IT industry development. He is currently working on ICT projects in Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2005, he held senior government positions in India, as a member of the Indian Administrative Service. He was Special Secretary to the Chief Minister and ex-officio Secretary Information Technology in the state of Andhra Pradesh and was closely associated with policies and strategies for leveraging ICT for development. He has been the Chief Executive of APFIRST an organization focused on promoting investments in the ICT sector, and also of AP Technology Services, a company specializing in the use of ICTs in government. His areas of expertise include ICT policy, e-government, investment promotion, infrastructure development and public-private partnerships. He has a MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and a MA in Economics from the JawaharlalNehruUniversity. He has taught as a visiting faculty at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo.
Brice Quesnel
Senior Operations Officer – Aid Effectiveness Unit – Operations Policy and Country Services
Brice Quesnel is a senior operations officer in OPCS, working in the Aid Effectiveness unit. Since his recruitment by the World Bank in 2006, he has worked on helping country teams and governments implement reforms in aid management along the lines of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and has participated in or co-lead a number of analytic studies on Aid Effectiveness. More recently, he was co-TTL for the organization of the Accra Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Before joining the Bank, he was manager of the Official Aid and MDBs unit at the French Treasury Department, and started his career as project manager in IT and radiocommunications in the Acquisition division of the French Ministry of Defense.
Navin Girishankar, Operations Adviser, Office of the Vice President
Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships, World Bank
Navin Girishankar is Operations Adviser to the Vice President of Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships. In this capacity, he supported the recent IDA15 replenishment and led CFP's efforts to update the Bank's strategy and policies relating to global partnerships, trust funds, and innovative finance. He also served as the Special Assistant to the CIO of the Bank and supported to a comprehensive stocktaking of IT across the Bank Group including a review and reform of IT finance and governance, as well as sourcing arrangements.
Prior to these corporate assignments, Navin was Senior Public Sector Specialist in the Africa Region of the Bank, where led several lending operations and advisory activities in support of public sector reform in Southern and Eastern Africa including in Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia. As a resident governance specialist in the Bank's Addis Ababa Office, he also led Bank support for Ethiopia's Sector Wide Approach to Public Sector Capacity Building, which included a considerable investment in ICT applications and e-government.
Navin has also held positions in the Bank's Independent Evaluation Group, and prior to joining the Bank, in the Progressive Policy Institute-Democratic Leadership Council. He holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from HarvardUniversity and WilliamsCollege respectively.
External Speakers
Name:George P. Arnaiz
Position:Congressman
Organisation:2nd District Negros Oriental, Philippines
Became a lawyer in 1982 and practiced the law profession for 9 years.
1988-1992 – elected Board Member (Provincial Legislator)
1992-1998 – elected Vice Governor
1998-2007 – elected Governor
2007 – elected representative of 2nd District, Province of Oriental Negros
Name:Mark Fleeton
Position:Chief Executive Officer
Organisation:Development Gateway Foundation
Mark Fleeton has spent his career in the management of aid programs for developing countries. He was appointed chief executive officer of Development Gateway Foundation in March 2006.
Before joining the foundation, Mr. Fleeton was an assistant director general at the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), where he was responsible for overall program quality, knowledge management systems, and the coordination of programs related specifically to the promotion and use of information and communications technologies for development.
Prior to that position, Mr. Fleeton worked in a range of policy, program, and corporate support positions at AusAID, including over 10 years managing country programs in Asia and the Pacific. Mr. Fleeton also spent seven years in Australia's Department of Finance.
Name:Harry M. Kitillya
Position:Commissioner General
Organisation:Tanzania Revenue Authority
I was born on 22nd November, 1950. I am married with two sons.
Graduated from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1975 with a BA.Hons. and Bowling Green State University (USA) in 1978 with MAcc. Have attended a number of Management and leadership professional programmes at the Indian Institute of Management, Irish Management Institute and HarvardUniversity. Have more than 15 years of solid and extensive experience at Senior and Top Managerial and leadership positions in:-
(a)academic affairs having been a lecturer and head of department at the University of Dar es Salaam.
(b)financial matters as Director of Finance and Development and
(c)taxation as Commissioner for Income Tax, Deputy Commissioner General and Commissioner General since 2003 to-date at Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA). I have also served in a number of Committees and Boards the latest being the Board of Directors of TRA and the UN Committee of Experts in International Cooperation in Tax matters.
Name:Grace Katasi Namachanja
Position:Senior Officer
Organisation:Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission
Born: 16/8/1965
A lawyer by profession with a Bachelor of Laws(LLB) and Master of Laws (LLM)
degrees from the University of Nairobi.
Practised law for the last nineteen(19) years as a
- Head of Legal Department in a public body - 5 years
- Magistrate - 5 years
- Senior Counsel in a women rights based NGO -1 year
- Currently a Senior Officer at the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission - since 2005 to date
Position:Senior Advisor
Organisation:OECD
Stefan Schmitz joined OECD Secretariat in Mai 2007 as senior advisor and coordinator of the Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results. Worked for BMZ (German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development), first as deputy head of the infrastructure division and then as coordinator for German bilateral cooperation with South Africa and Namibia. Before joining the BMZ in 2001, he held different posts in the German federal administration in the fields of statistical information systems, regional planning and international cooperation on urban issues. Also had several assignments as a consultant to the cooperation programme of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in China and to the GTZ (German Technical Cooperation). Held numerous lectureships at different German universities. Graduated from BonnUniversity in geography and mathematics and received a PhD in geosciences from the Free University of Berlin.
Name:Aslam Raffee
Position:CIO
Organisation:Department of Science and Technology, Government of South Africa
Aslam Raffee is the CIO of the Department of Science and Technology in the Government of South Africa . He is an executive member of the Government IT Officers Council (GITOC), and is the current chairperson of the GITOC Open Source and Open Standards working group. In February 2007 Cabinet adopted the Policy on Free and Open Source Software use for South African Government, which was presented by the workgroup. The workgroup also made significant input into the latest version of the Minimum Interoperability Operating Standards Handbook for Government. Mr Raffee is a member of the Information Soceity and Development cluster working group on electronic documentation. He is also a member of the South African Bureau of Standards E-Government working group as well as Technical Committee 71: Information Technology. He is a member of the Oasis committee on Open Document Format Adoption.
He has a Bcomm:Management degree from the University of South Africa and is currently studying for a Masters in Commerce: Information Systems at the University of Witwatersrand.
Name:Thomas Vennen
Position:Senior Legal and Governance Advisor, Project Leader
Organisation:GTZ, Good Governance Support Project, Kenya
Mr. Thomas Vennen was born in 1964 in Germany. He studied law at the University of Cologne, Germany, which he concluded with his 1st State Exam of Law at the Higher Regional Court, Düsseldorf, Germany in 1991; After language studies and professional internships in France, Spain and Mexico he started his legal clerkship at the Ministry of Justice/Court of Appeal, Berlin, Germany, which he successfully concluded with his 2nd State Exam of Law in 1995 that qualified him for judicial services; after which he enrolled at the Bar Association in Frankfurt a.M. From January 1996 to 1998 he assisted in establishing the Azeri-German joint venture law firm Interjurservice in Baku, which since has become a leading law firm in Azerbaijan. During this challenging assignment he advised clients on the investment environment in Azerbaijan, acted as lawyer of trust to the French Embassy and started advising the Government of Azerbaijan on harmonising the Azeri legal and judicial systems with international standards. Since then he worked from his office in Geneva, Switzerland or in country in different capacities as lawyer and consultant for many international corporations (ELF, AGIP, Castel Group, Mercedes Benz, Dresdner Bank etc.) organisations and agencies (EC, EBRD, OECD, ADB, GTZ etc.) in more than 15 countries in Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, Latin America and Africa. Mr. Vennen is also fluent in English, French, Russian and Spanish and continued completing his professional experience through various studies, i.e. a Certificate in International Human Rights Law at the University of Geneva (2000), and several courses on anti-corruption and other related areas. He regularly lectures at conferences and writes about governance topics.
Since 2005 Mr. Vennen is based with his family in Nairobi and runs the German Development Cooperation / GTZ Good Governance Reform Program in Kenya.
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