Chair Otaviano Canuto is Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, a division of more than 600 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, poverty reduction, and analytic work for the World Bank’s client countries. He took up his position in May 2009, after serving as the Vice President for Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank since June Dr. Canuto provides strategic leadership and direction on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and governance. He is involved in managing the Bank’s overall interactions with key partner institutions including the IMF, the OECD and regional development banks. He has lectured and written widely on economic growth, financial crisis management, and regional development, with recent work on financial crisis and economic growth in Latin America. Panel Members Mr. James W Adams is Vice President for the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank. In this capacity, he has overall responsibility for World Bank strategy, operations, and partnerships in one of the world’s most dynamic regions. Previously, Mr. Adams was Vice President and Head of Network, Operations Policy and Country Services. In this capacity, he was responsible for operational policy development, procurement and financial management activities, relations with United Nations and nongovernmental organizations, and support to Regional staff working in all these areas. Since joining the Bank in 1974, he has held a variety of operational positions in East Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, including as Country Director for Tanzania and Uganda, as Director for Operations Policy, and as a Division Chief of several departments. Before joining the Bank, Mr. Adams worked for Merchants Bank, in Syracuse, NY, and with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in Geneva, Switzerland. Ms. Aysegul Akin-Karasapan is currently the Director of Delivery and Results Management Department in Operations Policy and Country Services Vice Presidency at the World Bank, a position she has held since November Her responsibilities include: (1) Results Management, strengthening the Bank’s results measurement, reporting systems; fostering learning from and communications on results; and working with external partners on the results agenda; (2) Delivery Management of the World Bank’s lending and non-lending services; and (3) Operational Learning core curriculum development for Bank staff. Since joining the Bank in 1985, Ms. Akin-Karasapan has held various positions in operations, quality assurance, results management, evaluations. She has worked in the Middle East & North Africa and Latin America & the Caribbean Regions as an Economist and Manager of the Quality Enhancement Team. She also served as an Adviser to the Managing Director, and was the Director for Independent Evaluation in Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. IDA 16 New Results Measurement System and Implications for CASs and Bank Operations gender equality as smart economics

Panel Members Ms. Antonella Bassani, an Italian national, joined the Bank in 1993 as a Young Professional. She has since held various positions, including as Lead Economist in the Latin American and Caribbean region and as PREM Sector Manager in the Africa region. Since February 2010, she has held the positon of Director of the IDA Resource Mobilization Department in the Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships (CFP) VPU. In this position, Ms. Bassani manages the process of negotiating the IDA replenishments with donor and recipient governments to ensure adequate and growing resources for IDA beneficiary countries and ensures the implementation of the operational and financial policy framework which supports the effective use of IDA resources and the financial strength of IDA. Mayra Buvinic, a Chilean national and internationally respected expert on gender and social development, is the Bank's senior spokesperson on gender and development issues. Before joining the Bank in 2005, she was Chief of the Social Development Division at the Inter- American Development Bank and the IDB's Special Advisor on Violence Prevention. Prior to this, she was a founding member and President of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) in Washington, D.C. Ms. Buvinic holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree both in social psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Kyle Peters assumed his current position in August, He is responsible for managing the Country Services group (OPCCS) which is tasked to (i) provide operational support through corporate reviews and good practice lessons to the Bank's senior management and country programs/staff on issues related to CASs, DPLs, and selected investment lending; (ii) catalyze Bank efforts to strengthen the results focus of Bank strategies, instruments, and reporting; and (iii) coordinate institutional responses to global emergencies and institutional initiatives. Prior to joining OPCCS, Mr. Peters was Senior Manager in the Country Evaluation and Regional Relations group in the Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group from He was responsible for managing the group undertaking independent evaluations of the Bank’s country assistance programs and on the Bank’s programs and lending operations in economic management, poverty reduction and the financial sector. Prior to that, he worked as a macroeconomist in two regions--East Asia and the Pacific and Eastern Europe. Mr. Xian Zhu is the Director, Strategy and Operations, in the South Asia Region. Mr. Zhu, a Chinese National, joined the Bank in 2002 as Country Director for PNG, Timor Leste, and Pacific Island Countries in the East Asia and Pacific Region and Country Director for Bangladesh in the South Asia Region. He became the Director for Strategy and Operations on July Mr. Zhu’s three top priorities is to: (i) help Regional Vice President in ensuring the smooth functioning of the region’s overall operations; (ii) take a leading role in the design and implementation of the regional strategy, focusing on strong alignment of the key strategic and cross-cutting issues and linking outputs more strategically to the Region’s desired outcomes for better results; and (iii) be responsible for the implementation of the region’s operational strategy, focusing on monitoring the overall regional work program and aggregate deliverables and close coordination and assessment of the country and sector strategies to ensure consistency with budget and HR resources.