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Adriana Kugler
Adriana Debora Kugler is a Colombian-American economist. She is the U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank, nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate last April. She is a professor of public policy at Georgetown University and she is currently on leave from her tenured position at Georgetown. She served as the Chief Economist to U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis from September 6, 2011 to January 4, 2013.U.S. Department of Labor Education Adriana Kugler received her Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1991, graduating with first class joint honors in economics and political science. In 1997, she was awarded her Ph.D. by the University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D.; her advisors were Nobel laureate George Akerlof, Nada Eissa, and David K. Levine. Academic appointments Dr. Adriana Kugler was Vice-Provost for Faculty for Georgetown from 2013-2016 and is currently a full professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy. She was founder and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Bank For Reconstruction And Development
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is an international financial institution, established in 1944 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, that is the lending arm of World Bank Group. The IBRD offers loans to middle-income developing countries. The IBRD is the first of five member institutions that compose the World Bank Group. The initial mission of the IBRD in 1944, was to finance the reconstruction of European nations devastated by World War II. The IBRD and its concessional lending arm, the International Development Association (IDA), are collectively known as the World Bank as they share the same leadership and staff. Following the reconstruction of Europe, the Bank's mandate expanded to advancing worldwide economic development and eradicating poverty. The IBRD provides commercial-grade or concessional financing to sovereign states to fund projects that seek to improve transportation and infrastructure, education, domestic polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nada Eissa
Nada O. Eissa is an American economist who is an associate professor of Public Policy and Economics at Georgetown University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (microeconomics) in 2005–2007. Education and early life Eissa moved to the United States from Sudan at the age of 9. She earned degrees in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and from Harvard University. Career Eissa has been a member of the economics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the lead academic for the International Growth Centre's programs in South Sudan and Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |