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Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized cllnothe'l yea'l is coming to its end. !f{eligious and othe'l celeb'lations will be continuous and in a 'lisinq c'lescenelo th'Wughout most ol the wO'llel until they me'lge into a linal celeh'lation we/coming the Jlew CL;lea'l. CfO'l the CWo'lld !Bank, !ig)J and !i9!C, it has benz a yea'Z ol w/1ich the stalf o.f oU'l line o'lganizations can be p'Wud. !it has been a busy yea'l and a sobe'ling mze, in which ou'l 'lesponsibilities mzc/ p7.oblenzs we'lf sea'lching/y 'lelJiewed at the CUJl Conle'lence on c;]'la(/e anc/ !J)elJelopnzejlt in genelJa and the memoMble meeting of Oll'l own {]m,e7.jZO'l,S at gokyo. (.9t has been a yea'l to b'ling to oU'l consciousj/ess in many ways tile U'lqency, the magnitude and the challenge ol the task of clelJelopnzent finance in which we a'le engageel. • • • 9:hose ol us knew him-nea'lly all the staff-· - still miss the conz/o'ltable leeling which came witll knowing tltat 93ill !J{owellll1as always alJailable to sha'le ou'l p'lob/ems-pe'lsonal and pe'lsmmel. • • • 9:/1e yea'l has been a good one lo'l L-9U'ls. CWoods al1(1 me as we continue to meet and come to know mo'le and mo'le stalf membe'ls al1el lvilJes. CWe welcome all those who halJe joined us in 1961./.. CWa'lm gooel wishes to all in the IBank anel !iqC-anel to thei'l lamilies-lo'l a 5J1e'l'lY Ch'listmas anel a <-9{appy Jlew Qjea'l. g eO'lqe 9). erA)ooels Vol. 18 No. 11 International Bank Notes December 1964 CONTENTS page Our Alternate Executive Directors........................................... 3 Teaching in the Arctic ........... .. ....................................... ...... 9 Sinterklaas ...... .. ................................................................. 13 2 ~ We welcome to the pages of "Ban.1e Notes" this month the Alternate Directors of our institutions. Under the Articles of Agreement of the Bank, the Alternate Directors are appointed by the Executive Directors, with full powers to act for them when the latter are not present. Under the same conditions as Executive Directors, the Alternate Directors function, ex officio, on the Board of Directors of the International Finance Corporation and on the Board of the International Devel opment Association. In some cases temporary Alternate Directors are appointed to act in the absence of the Executive Director. There are, at present, eighteen Alternate Directors and two temporary Alternate Directors functioning prac tically as regular Alternates. In November, 1964, six new Alternate Directors took office. They are: Messrs. Ali, Ayari, Coleman, Haushofer, Haus-Solis and Hokedal. Mr. Haus Solis is not a newcomer to the World Bank since he served during the period 1960-1962. Some Alternates have long service. Mr. Ali Akbar Khosropur of Iran has the longest service as an Alternate Director, having come to the Bank in 1953. Mr. van V uuren and Afr. Camacho are also veteran Alternates having taken up their posts in 1958 and 1959 respectively. Not all Alternate Directors serve full time in the World Bank Group of organizations. Some serve jointly in the Bank and Fund. This is true of Mr. Handfield-Iones of Canada 'who doubles as an Alternate in the Fund, and Mr. Siglienti of Italy who serves as an Executive Director in the Fund. Several othe?' Alternates, like Messrs. Gil and Reilly, combine their positions in the Bank with positions in their Embassies. Helmut Abramowski, from Germany, was appointed Alternate to Mr. Donner for the Federal Republic of Germany in January of 1963. He came co the Bank after ten years of experience in the German Federal Ministry of Economics, where he worked mainly at problems of monetary policy and international financing. He was also an attorney. Mr. Abramowski studied law and economics and graduated in law from the University of Kiel. He is married and has two children. Said Mohamed Ali of Somalia became the Alternate to Mr. Kochman for Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Dahomey, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Malagasy Republic, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Togo and Upper Volta on November 18, 1964. Mr. Ali has spent the Jast two years in Mogadiscio first as Secretary of the Somali Planning Commission and Economic Adviser to the Government and later as Deputy Managing Director of the Somali National Bank. He has also had experience in the provinces and represented Somalia in a number of Regional and International Conferences. Mr. Ali completed his studies in economics and history at the University of Ireland in Dublin. He is married and has two daughters. Chedly Ayari of Tunisia was appointed Alternate to Mr. Tazi for Afghanistan, Algeria, Ghana, Indonesia, laos, libya, Malaysia, Morocco and Tunisia on November 6, 1964. Earlier this year he was a member of the Tunisian Delegation to the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development. He has been closely associated with other U.N. activities, having been Economic Adviser to the Permanent Tunisian Mission to the U.N. since 1960. For some years he was in charge of economic research and documentation in the Societe Tunisienne de Banque in Tunis. He holds a doctorate in economics from the School of law and Economics in Paris. Mr. Ayari is married and has one child. Aleksandar Bogoev of Yugoslavia has been Alternate to Mr. lieftinck for Cyprus, Israel, the Netherlands and Yugoslavia for the past two years. He came to the Bank after fourteen years in Belgrade as Deputy General Manager and later General Manager of the National Bank of Yugoslavia. He has also been General Manager of the Macedonian branch of the National Bank of Yugoslavia in Skopje. Mr. Bogoev went to school in Skopje and did his university work at the Economics Faculty of the University of Belgrade. He is married and has three children. 4 Jose Camacho-Lorenzana of Colombia has been Alternate to Mr. Mejia-Palacio for Braz.il, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador and the Philippines since 1959. For ten years prior to that he held the post of Counselor of Information for Latin America in the Bank. He has also spent many years in the foreign service of Colombia and he has attended numerous international conferences on economic and commercial matters. He was a member of the Bogota Stock Exchange and for twelve years a staff correspondent for several Bogota news \ papers. He completed his studies at the National University of Colom bia.He is concurrently Minister of the Colombian Embassy in Wash ington. Mr. Camacho-Lorenzana is married. S. Othello Coleman of Liberia became Alternate to Mr. Garba for Burundi, Congo (Leopold ville) , Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar on November 9, 1964. He comes from Monrovia where he has been working in senior positions in the National Planning Agency, most recently as Director of Projects Preparation, Review, Evaluation and External Aid Coordi nation. In April 1962 Mr. Coleman represented his Government at the Workshop on Urbanization and Community Development held at the E.CA. Headquarters in Addis Ababa and in 1963 he attended the U.N. Seminar for African Officials on Development Financing and visited the Fund and the Economic Development Institute in Washington. He was in Washington in 1953-54 studying taxation and is a graduate of American International College in Springfield, Massa chusetts, with Economics as his major. Mr. Coleman is married and has four children. Rufino Gil of Costa Rica was appointed Alternate to Mr. Machado for Costa Rica, EI Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela on February 1, 1964. He has had a very extensive career in commercial,financial and academic life. In 1963 he was an Alternate Director of the Inter-American Develop ment Bank. He came to \'i{!ashington after many years as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Costa Rica, as a professor of economics at the University of Costa Rica and as manager of a large automobile company in Costa Rica. He is a licensed public ac countant and holds a master's degree in Economics and Social Science from the University of Costa Rica. He is also Economic Minister Counsellor of the Embassy of Costa Rica in Washington; and he is a delegate to the Economic and Social Counsel as well as to the Action and Study Groups on Cocoa, Coffee, Banana and Sugar problems in the Organisation of American States. Mr. Gil is married and has four children. S. Guhan of India, was appointed Alternate to Mr. Rajan for India on August 17, 1964. He came to Washington after service as Private Secretary to the Finance Minister and to the Minister of Economic and Defense Coordination in India. He was also in charge of the Statistics and Survey Division of India's Planning Commission for 5 some time. Before joining the Central Government he had varied experience in the Government of Madras State. He has also taught at the Presidency College in Madras. He holds a degree in Statistics from the University of Madras. Mr. Guhan is married. Stephen .J. Handfield-Jones was appointed Alternate to Mr. Plumptre for Canada, Ireland and Jamaica on August 1, 1964. He came to the Bank after ten years in the Research Department of the Bank of Canada in Ottawa. He has also spent several years in the Department I of Trade and Industry of the Province of Nova Scotia.