Mr. Andrea Goldstein, Senior Economist, OECD Development Centre, Paris

Ms. Maria E. Maher, Senior Economist, Structural Policy Analysis Division, Economics Department, OECD, Paris

Mr. Miao Gengshu, Senior Economist, Former President of China Minmetals Corporation and Vice President of China Association of International Trade, Beijing

Previous positions include principal economist (tax policy), Ministry of Finance and National Planning and senior revenue analyst, Ministry of Finance and National Planning.

As the World Bank s chief economist and senior vice president, I was in the middle of the conflagration and the debates about its causes and the appropriate policy responses.

The panellists will include Ms. Jo Marie Griesgraber, Chairperson, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition Mr. Randall Dodd, Director, Financial Policy Forum and Mr. Frank Schroeder, Senior Economist, Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Nearly three years ago, I decided to leave my comfortable job as a World Bank senior economist in Washington and come back to my country of birth, Ethiopia, after nearly 30 years abroad.

Professional skills Economist

An Economist for the Ages

14 Economist Intelligence Unit, www.eiu.com.

16 Economist Intelligence Unit, www.eiu.com.

23 Economist Intelligence Unit, www.eiu.com.

27 Economist Intelligence Unit, December 2002.

The Economist , 2 July 1994, pp 66.

26 Oceania Flash, 23 October 2002 Economist Intelligence Unit, ViewsWire, 18 December 2002 Economist Intelligence Unit, Country Report New Caledonia, March 2005.

Economist Robert Gordon takes this idea even further.

The Copenhagen Consensus Center asked Gürcan Gülen, a senior energy economist at the Center for Energy Economics, Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, to assess the state of the science in defining, measuring, and predicting the creation of green jobs.

Turnover among senior and not so senior people in these agencies is very high.

The neo Keynesian economist wants to boost demand generally.

The economist Paul Krugman calls this the confidence fairy.

Ms. Dilek Aykut, Economist, International Finance Team, World Bank

C. Senior Management Network

A. Senior Management Service

Senior Adviser (D 1)

C. Senior Review Group

Senior Administrative Personnel Officer

Senior External Relations Adviser

So I readily plead guilty to my economist critic s charge.

The Economist snidely referred to the results in quotation marks.

As an economist, I find this state of affairs frustrating.

Mr. Juan Carluccio, Economist, Economic and International Relations Unit, Nestlé

11 Economist Intelligence Unit, Country Report New Caledonia, December 2003.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, unemployment is negligible.23

6 Economist Intelligence Unit, www.eiu.com The Island Sun, December 2004.

This problem was highlighted as far back as the 1960 s by the Belgian economist Robert Triffin, and, more recently, by the late Italian economist Tommaso Padoa Schioppa.

Senior Humanitarian and Development Officer

Senior Radio Technician (FS 5)

Senior Radio Operator (FS 5)

Financial disclosure by senior officials

Now I looked at this and I called up The Economist.

For an economist, this is cause for celebration no cocktail required.

That s where the UN and the economist Jeffrey Sachs come in.

Rogue Economist asks Brunei authorities to implement a credit rating system

31 Economist Intelligence Unit, Country Reports, December 2002 and December 2003.

1972 1976 Economist in the Foreign Ministry Administration for Development Cooperation.