Bio
Alan Gelb - As Director of Development Policy, Alan Gelb provides policy advice to the Chief Economist, and guides DEC's provision of research and analytical services to the Bank's operations. Before assuming his current position in July 2004, Alan Gelb was the Bank's Chief Economist for Africa. Before that, he was staff director of the 1996 World Development Report, From Plan to Market, and chief of the transition division in the Bank's policy research department. He is a specialist on transition economies, financial systems, macroeconomic management, commodity prices and the economics and political economy of oil-exporting countries. He has published several books and scholarly articles on these and related subjects, and co-authored "Can Africa Claim the 21st Century?" an authoritative study on African development.
Joseph E. Stiglitz - Joseph Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was the chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001. He is currently a finance and economics professor at Columbia University. He is the author of Globalization and Its Discontents and The Roaring Nineties.