Participant Biographies Haki Abazi is the program director for the Western Balkans portion of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Pivotal Place program. Prior to joining the RBF in 2007, Mr. Abazi served as director of the Kosovo office for the East West Management Institute, Inc. He developed and implemented a wide range of programs addressing critical issues in Kosovo during the transition period. He has also played an important role in the development of civil society in the region. Mr. Abazi has over nine years of experience in designing and managing development programs in Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. These programs were designed to support overall developments and increase the level of participation of citizens in decision‐making processes. Mr. Abazi has in‐depth knowledge and work experience related to the Balkan's civil society community and the geopolitics of the region. He is chairing the steering committee for the Grantmakers East Forum and sits on the boards of several Institute for international organizations. Mr. Abazi holds a degree in computer sciences and State management, and was educated in Kosovo and the United States. Masood Ahmed is Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department Effectiveness at the IMF. He obtained his graduate and post-graduate degrees in Economics from the London School of Economics, where he also served on the economics faculty. Previously, Mr. Ahmed was the Director of the External Partners’ Relations Department in the IMF and served as Director General for Policy and International Development at the UK Government's Department for Consortium International Development (DFID). Between 2000-03, Mr. Ahmed was Deputy Meeting Director in the IMF's Policy Development and Review Department. Previously, Mr. Ahmed held a number of positions in the World Bank, working on country programs and projects and international economic policy relating to debt, aid New York City effectiveness, trade and global economic prospects. As Vice President for 6-7 June 2016 Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Mr. Ahmed was the senior World Bank manager responsible for the development of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach as well as the HIPC Debt Initiative. He also served concurrently for a year as Acting Vice President for Private Sector Development and Infrastructure. Vincent Ashcroft graduated in Economics from the Australian National University in 2000 and then joined the Australian Department of Finance and Administration where he worked in budget coordination. After a short secondment to the Ministry of Finance in Timor-Leste in 2002-03, Vincent joined the Australian Treasury where he held various roles in budget policy including managing the Australian Government’s debt portfolio and the establishment of the sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund. Vincent was the Australian Treasury’s Senior Representative for South East Asia based in Jakarta from 2006 to 2008. Vincent joined AusAID in 2008 as the Country Economist for Indonesia based in Jakarta and upon returning to Canberra in 2010 took up global responsibility for AusAID’s programs in Economics, Rural Development and Infrastructure. He was then head of Australian Aid in Timor-Leste from 2011 to 2014. Having left the public service in early 2015, Vincent is currently working with the Government of Afghanistan as an adviser to the Minister for Finance on the government’s public financial management reform program. Dr. Juan Carlos Botero is the World Justice Project’s Executive Director and former Director of the Rule of Law Index, where he has led the development of the Index project and co-authored the report since its inception in 2008. Dr. Botero’s previous experience as a researcher at Yale University and consultant for the World Bank focused on developing cross-country indicators and designing several indices of the World Bank’s Doing Business report. Previous experiences include service as the Director of the Colombian Government Trade Bureau in Washington D.C., Chief International Legal Counsel of the Colombian Ministry of Commerce, Deputy-Chief Negotiator of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, member of the Advisory Board of the Colombian Antitrust and Consumer Protection Agency, and Judicial Clerk at the Colombian Constitutional Court. He has been a professor or guest lecturer in several countries, and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Justice. His academic publications focus on the areas of rule of law, access to justice, and labor regulation. A national of Colombia, Dr. Botero holds a law degree from Universidad de los Andes, a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard University, and a Doctorate of Juridical Science (SJD) from Georgetown University. Institute for State Effectiveness Washington, DC +1(202) 298-5959 [email protected] www.effectivestates.org Participant Biographies Marc Alain Boucicault has worked in international development, operations management and macroeconomic research on Haiti at the World Bank and Inter- American Development Bank. He is a co-founder and the current Director of Support to Youth Initiatives of Groupe ECHO Haiti, an organization valorizing the potential of young adults in development in Haiti through which he lead several innovative projects 2016 including ELAN Haiti, a platform that brings together a community of young leaders and Partners’ entrepreneurs from Haiti, its diaspora and the world focused on taking joint actions in Consortium Haiti. He is also the chief external relations officer at HFund, a closed-ended micro- Meeting venture capital firm based in Haiti offering new modern and tailored financial instruments that bring capital to innovative businesses and contribute to the emergence of a new category of entrepreneurs in Haiti. Marc Alain is a Fulbright scholar. He holds a M.A in 6-7 June Financial Economic Policy from American University and a B.A in Applied Quantitative Economics from CTPEA. NYC Ambassador Reuben E. Brigety II is the dean of the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Previously, he was appointed Representative of the United States of America to the African Union and Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Ambassador Brigety was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of African Affairs and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. Ambassador Brigety previously served as Director of the Sustainable Security Program at the Center for American Progress and as a Special Assistant in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance at USAID. Prior to his work in the policy arena, Ambassador Brigety was an assistant professor of government and politics at George Mason University and American University and served as an active duty U.S. naval and holds an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Henk-Jan Brinkman has been chief of the Policy, Planning and Application Branch of the Peacebuilding Support Office in the UN Secretariat since 2010. He is a past co- chair of the Working Group on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding indicators of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding and has been a member or (co-chair) of several working groups and advisory boards. Between 2006 and 2010, he was, subsequently, chief Economic Analysis and chief Food Security Policy and Markets in the Office of the Executive Director of the World Food Programme in Rome, and Senior Adviser for Economic Policy in the World Food Programme, in New York. From 2001 to 2006 he was a Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the Executive Office of the Secretary- General of the UN, where he advised Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette on economic, social and environmental issues. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from the University of Groningen and a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research. He is the lead author of WFP’s World Hunger Series – Hunger and Markets (Earthscan, 2009) and the author of Explaining Prices in the Global Economy: A Post-Keynesian Model. Betsy Campbell is the vice president for programs at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Her responsibilities include oversight of Democratic Practice, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development, Southern China, Western Balkans and New York City, and a special initiative to support a democratic transition in Egypt, as well as the grants management and communications departments. Ms. Campbell began her career at Save the Children working with small enterprise and credit programs in Latin America and Africa. She served for 12 years at the Ford Foundation, as a program officer in the Rural Poverty and Resources program, as director of Community and Resource Development, and as senior director and deputy to the vice president for Asset Building and Community Development. She currently chairs the board of Winrock International and serves on the boards of the European Foundation Centre and the Center for Rural Strategies. Ms. Campbell holds a MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Judy Cheng-Hopkins retired in 2014 after a 36-year career at the UN and is now an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. At the UN, she served as Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Peacebuilding Support, Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees, and director of the World Food Programme’s Office in New York, as well as WFP’s Asia and Europe director. She served UNDP in Africa for 10 years, in Zambia and Kenya. She was also UNDP's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa. Ms. Cheng-Hopkins received a Master’s of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs as well as diplomas and certificates from Universitè d’Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France and the Harvard Institute for International Development.