FORA.tv Speaker - 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.