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Karim Belayachi
Karim Belayachi, a private sector development specialist, joined the Doing Business team in 2007. He leads the Starting a Business indicator. Prior to that, he led the Getting Credit (Credit Information) indicator. He holds a master's degree in public policy analysis and economic development from Indiana University's School for Public and Environmental Affairs. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he worked with Grameen Foundation on providing financial and technical support to the microfinance sector in the Middle East & North Africa region. He speaks French, Spanish and Arabic.
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Iryna Bilotserkivska
Iryna Bilotserkivska works on the Trading Across Border indicator. She has experience in the private and public sector, as well as in international and non-governmental organizations. Iryna has worked on issues related to international trade and private sector development in the UN Economic Commission for Europe, World Trade Organization, International Trade Center. She has private sector experience working for a large multinational company – Ab InBev (SunInbev Ukraine). She holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA. She is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian and is conversant in German and Greek.
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Maya Choueiri
Maya Choueiri joined the Doing Business team in May 2007 to work on developing the Getting electricity indicator. She holds a master of science in electrical engineering and a master of science in management science and engineering, both from Stanford University. She obtained her bachelor's degree in computer and communications engineering from the American University of Beirut and was a visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She speaks Arabic and French and is conversant in German.
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Dariga Chukmaitova
Dariga joined the Doing Business team in February 2012 and works on the Registering Property indicator. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, with concentrations in public policy and comparative politics, and a master's degree in public administration in international management from Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA. Before joining the World Bank Group, she worked in the public and private sectors in international and Kazakhstani organizations. She speaks Russian.
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Santiago Croci
Santiago Croci joined the Doing Business team in March 2008 and works on the Getting Credit - Legal Rights indicator. Prior to joining the team, he worked on an insolvency and creditor rights initiative at the Legal Vice-Presidency of the World Bank Group. He also worked on development issues at the Competitiveness Capacity Building Initiative of the Organization of American States. Mr. Croci holds a law degree in corporate law from Montpellier I University (Montpellier, France) and a master's degree in international law from Paul Cézanne University (Aix-en-Provence, France). He speaks French and Spanish.
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Hayane C. Dahmen
Hayane joined Doing Business in February 2012 and works on the Getting Credit -- Legal Rights indicator. She obtained her LL.M. from Georgetown University with a focus on antitrust and trade law, her J.D./LL.B. from the University of British Columbia, and her B.A. from McGill University in political science and philosophy. Before joining the World Bank Group, Hayane worked in private practice as an antitrust and foreign investment lawyer at McMillan LLP and at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Canada. She speaks Portuguese and Spanish, and is conversant in French and German.
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Fernando Dancausa
Fernando Dancausa joined the Doing Business team in June 2011 to lead the Employing Workers indicator. He holds a law degree and a business management degree from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain), and a master's degree in international Business and Economic Law from Georgetown University (Washington D.C.). Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Dancausa worked on corporate and securities transactions in Madrid and London at the law firm Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira (Spain), and interned on issues related to the right to freedom of association at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law in Washington D.C. He speaks Spanish and French and is conversant in Italian.
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Marie Delion
Marie Delion joined the Doing Business team in 2003. She currently works on the Dealing with Construction Permits indicator prior to that she worked on Registering Property indicator. She previously worked at World Bank Group Institute for six years. She studied international commerce and has a CGE "O" Level from Cambridge and a bachelor's degree in computer science from University of Maryland University College. Prior to joining the World Bank Group in 1999, Ms. Delion worked for Siemens in Cameroon and KPMG in New Caledonia. She speaks French.
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Raian Divanbeigi
Raian Divanbeigi joined the Doing Business team in April 2010 and works on the Employing Workers indicator. He holds a master's degree in Development Economics and a bachelor's degree in Economic Development and International Cooperation from the University of Florence. Prior to joining the team Mr. Divanbeigi worked at ActionAid International where he conducted research on Policy Coherence for Development. He also worked for the Office of International Affairs of the regional government of Tuscany as an advisor on Aid Effectiveness. In 2007 Mr. Divanbeigi worked in India on a development project by LAMA development cooperation agency. He speaks Italian and Farsi and is conversant French and Spanish.
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Alejandro Espinosa
Alejandro Espinosa joined the Doing Business team in 2007 and works on the Dealing with Construction Permits indicator. He holds a degree in government and international relations from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, a certificate in economic policy from American University, and a master's degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the Doing Business team, he worked as a consultant in the World Bank Group's African region, where he specialized in managing databases on trade and education. Mr. Espinosa also worked as a research assistant at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. He speaks Spanish and Mandarin.
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Caroline Frontigny
Caroline Frontigny joined the Doing Business team in March 2011 to work on the Getting Electricity indicator. She holds a master's degree in electric energy and information sciences from the engineer school Supélec, France. Before joining the team, she worked at the French embassy for the Nuclear Energy Office. She speaks French and is conversant in Spanish.
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Paula Garcia Serna
Paula Garcia Serna works on the Starting a Business indicator. Prior to that, she worked as a Business Development Specialist in the Delegation for Multilateral Organizations Affairs of the Catalan Government (Spain) in Washington DC serving as a liaison between Spanish companies and multilateral organizations. She has also worked as a consultant for UNICEF undertaking a private sector mapping in Mali to identify the potential of companies promoting children's rights through cross-sector partnerships. She holds a Master's degree in International Development Cooperation and did her undergraduate studies in Humanities and Philosophy in France, Germany and Spain. She speaks Spanish, French, and German.
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Carolin Geginat
Carolin Geginat, a senior economist, has been with the World Bank Group since 2003 and joined the Doing Business team in October 2006 to develop the new Infrastructure indicator. Ms. Geginat holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Cologne and a post-graduate degree from the Institute of World Economics in Kiel. Before joining the Doing Business team, she worked on issues of debt and fiscal sustainability in low-income countries. In particular, Ms. Geginat was working on the implementation of debt relief arrangements for a number of African countries through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Relief Initiative (HIPC). She speaks German, French and Spanish.
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Adrian Gonzalez
Adrian joined Doing Business in February 2012 as Senior Private Sector Development Specialist. He holds a Ph.D. on Development Economics and Finance from The Ohio State University. He also received a M.A. in Economics from OSU. Before joining the World Bank Group, he was Lead Researcher at The Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), and his research focused on topics such as interest rates, risk and portfolio quality, efficiency, sustainability, social performance, and governability. Prior to joining MIX, he was a Researcher at The Rural Finance Program from The Ohio State University (OSU). He speaks Spanish.
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Cemile Hacibeyoglu
Cemile Hacibeyoglu joined the Doing Business team in June 2007 to work on the Registering Property indicator. Previously, Ms. Hacibeyoglu worked with the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation helping scientific entrepreneurs from Eurasia enter U.S. markets. She has also worked with the Cohen Group, a business consultancy, and the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association on investment climate and risk assessment. Ms. Hacibeyoglu holds a bachelor of arts in applied languages from Bilkent University in Turkey and a master's degree from the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Ms. Hacibeyoglu speaks Russian, Turkish and French and is conversant in Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, German and Spanish.
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Betina Hennig
Betina Hennig joined the Doing Business team in February 2010 to work on the Getting Credit - Legal Rights indicator. She is an attorney licensed to practice law in Brazil and New York. She holds a law degree from Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), a master's degree in Law and Economics from Fundacao Getulio Vargas (Brazil) and a master's degree in Securities and Financial Regulations from Georgetown University (Washington D.C.). Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Ms. Hennig worked on the corporate department of one of the largest law firms in Brazil (Veirano Advogados). Ms. Hennig also worked as a counsel for two multinationals (Dell Inc. and MicroStrategy Inc.) and interned at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She speaks Portuguese and is conversant in Spanish.
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Hussam Hussein
Hussam Hussein joined the Doing Business team in January 2011 to work on the Starting a Business indicator. He holds a bachelor and a master degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from Gorizia, University of Trieste (Italy), and studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He also holds a master’s degree in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe (Natolin, Warsaw). Prior to joining the team, he worked at the London Middle East Institute, at the Italian Embassy in Amman (Jordan), at the European Parliament (Brussels), and at the Office of the Autonomous Province of Trento in Brussels. He speaks Arabic, Italian and is conversant in French.
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Joyce Antone Ibrahim
Joyce Ibrahim joined the Doing Business team in March 2011. She currently works on the Enforcing Contracts indicator, and previously worked on the Resolving Insolvency indicator. Prior to that, she worked with the Financial Access unit and the Transparency and Accountability unit at the World Bank Group. She holds a bachelor's degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a master's degree in international relations and international economics from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She speaks Arabic and is conversant in French.
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Nan Jiang
Nan Jiang joined the Doing Business team in December 2008 and currently works on the Paying Taxes indicator. Ms. Jiang holds an Honors degree in Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Master's degree in Management Science from Stanford University where she specialized in Finance. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, she worked in the Fixed Income department at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, London. She also worked in ABB Singapore, the Asia-Pacific headquarter of ABB Group, a leader in power and automation technologies. Ms. Jiang speaks Chinese.
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Hervé Kaddoura
Hervé Kaddoura joined the Doing Business team in July 2010 to work on the Protecting Investors indicator. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he worked for the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Kaddoura holds a Master's degree in International and European Law and a Master of Laws degree in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center. He speaks French and Arabic.
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Graeme Littler
Graeme Littler joined the Doing Business team in 2003 and works on the website. He previously worked for the Emerging Markets Data Base, which the International Finance Corporation sold to Standard & Poor's in 1999. He was the editor of the monthly Emerging Stock Markets Review and the annual Emerging Stock Markets Factbook from 1995 to 2000. Prior to joining the World Bank Group in 1993, Mr. Littler edited the International Securities Regulation Report and other publications. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Victoria, Canada, and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, Virginia.
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Jean Michel Lobet
Jean Michel Lobet joined the Doing Business project in October 2006 and leads the Protecting Investors indicator. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he held positions related to legal reform in other international organizations in Washington, DC. As a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, he worked on labor law issues and, for the Organization of American States, he led and developed the Mutual Legal Assistance Project. Mr. Lobet holds a law degree in corporate law from Montpellier I University (Montpellier, France) and a master's in international law from Panthéon-Assas University (Paris, France). He speaks French and Spanish.
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Augusto Lopez-Claros
Augusto Lopez-Claros became the Director of Global Indicators and Analysis at the World Bank Group in March 2011. Previously he was Chief Economist and Director of the Global Competitiveness Program at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he was the editor of the Global Competitiveness Report, the Forum’s flagship publication, as well as a number of regional economic reports. Before joining the Forum he was Executive Director with Lehman Brothers (London) and Senior International Economist. He was the International Monetary Fund’s resident representative in the Russian Federation during 1992-95. Read more...
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Valerie Marechal
Valerie Marechal joined the Doing Business team in November 2007. Ms. Marechal worked on the Getting Credit - Legal Rights indicator and the Employing Workers indicator. Ms.Marechal is currently on development assignment within the World Bank Group. She holds an LL.B from King's College London, a Maîtrise from la Sorbonne Paris and an LL.M in Law and Development from SOAS (U.K). Prior to joining the team Ms. Marechal worked in judicial reform at the American Bar Association, focusing on Latin America and Africa. Ms. Marechal has lived in the U.K., France, Belgium, Spain, and Ecuador. She speaks French and Spanish and is conversant in Russian.
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Frederic Meunier
Frederic Meunier joined the Doing Business team in December 2009 and works on the Starting a Business indicator. He obtained a degree in economics from Sciences Po and studied at Georgetown University. He holds a master's degree in economics from the College of Europe (Belgium) and a master's degree in international business from Essec business school (France). Prior to joining the team, he worked at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, where he focused on project finance and public private partnerships. He speaks French and is conversant in German.
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Robert Murillo
Robert Murillo joined the Doing Business team in February 2010 and works on the Trading Across Borders indicator. He holds a master's degree in Finance and Strategy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and a bachelor's degree in Government and International Relations from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Before joining the World Bank Group, he worked as a field-based business analyst preparing country reports for international trade publications in sectors such as Energy and Pharmaceuticals. He speaks Spanish and French.
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Joanna Nasr
Joanna Nasr joined the Doing Business team in October 2007 to work on the Closing a Business indicator and is currently working on credit bureaus - Getting Credit indicator . Ms. Nasr holds a Bachelor's degree in economics and a Master degree in financial economics, both from the American University of Beirut. Ms. Nasr holds also an advanced postgraduate degree in government (comparative politics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she was a Chevening scholar. Ms. Nasr has published several articles in the field of economics. She speaks French and Arabic.
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Marie-Jeanne Ndiaye
Marie-Jeanne Ndiaye joined the Doing Business team in May 2011. Prior to that she spent four years at the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group as a Program Assistant working on human development studies. Marie-Jeanne's previous professional experiences include eight years in Operations in the Africa Region, most of which as Trust Fund Coordinator and Portfolio Monitoring Coordinator. She speaks French and is conversant in Spanish.
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Nuria de Oca
Nuria de Oca joined the Doing Business team in March 2011 to lead the Registering Property indicator. Prior to joining the team, she worked on World Bank land administration projects in Latin America and on global research projects analyzing the impacts of large scale land investments in agriculture and forestry. Before joining the World Bank, she worked at AECOM International Development, where she conducted legal feasibility studies for industrial and commercial investments worldwide. Ms. de Oca holds a Master’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, as well as a law degree and a business management degree from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain). She is a licensed lawyer in Madrid and speaks French, German and Spanish.
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Mikiko Imai Ollison
Mikiko Imai Ollison, a private sector development specialist, joined the Doing Business team in February 2010. She leads the Trading Across Borders indicator. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, she conducted research in Africa and Central Asia, and advised the Japanese government on private sector development issues at a Tokyo-based think tank. Ms. Ollison also worked in London and Washington at an advocacy organization focused on African trade and development, and began her career at the World Trade Organization in Geneva as an intern. She attended the London School of Economics, where she earned a master's degree in Development Studies and a bachelor's degree in Economics. She speaks Japanese and is conversant in French.
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Rita Ramalho
Rita Ramalho is the Program Manager of the World Bank Group’s Doing Business and Women, Business and the Law projects. Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 183 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders. Women, Business and the Law presents indicators based on laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as entrepreneurs and employees, in part drawing on laws contained in the Gender Law Library. The data can inform research and policy discussions on how to improve women's economic opportunities and outcomes. Previously, Ms. Ramalho was the Program Manager of the World Bank Group’s Enterprise Analysis unit, which produces Enterprise Surveys. Enterprise Surveys provide the world's most comprehensive company-level data in emerging markets and developing economies. Enterprise surveys’ data is available on 120,000+ firms in 125 countries. Data is used to create indicators that benchmark the quality of the business and investment climate across countries from both female and male entrepreneurs. Ms. Ramalho holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her previous research focuses on the impact of regulation on economic variables such as growth, where she found that better business regulations can lead to more growth. Currently she is researching the impact of regulations of female labor force participation, tax policy and entrepreneurship, labor regulations, and the size of informal sector. She speaks Portuguese and is conversant in Spanish.
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Galina Rudenko
Galina Rudenko joined the Doing Business team in February 2012 to work on the Employing Workers indicator. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, she had worked for the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs/Codification Division. Ms. Rudenko holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Krasnodar (Russia) and Master’s degree in International and European Law from L'Institut du Droit de la Paix et du Développement de l'Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (France). She is fluent in Russian and French.
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Valentina Saltane
Valentina Saltane joined the Doing Business team in March 2011 to lead Closing a Business indicator. Prior to that, Ms. Saltane was part of the Financial Access team at the World Bank where she worked on Financial Access reports. Before joining the World Bank Ms. Saltane held a position of a Research Analyst at the Law and Economic Consulting Group (LECG). Ms. Saltane has also worked for the World Resources Institute as a program coordinator. She holds an MPA degree from Cornell University and a BA degree from Colby College. She has lived in Argentina, Bolivia, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Latvia, Russia and the United States and speaks Latvian, Russian, Spanish as well as some German and French.
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Anastasia Shegay
Anastasia Shegay joined the Doing Business team in August 2010 and works on the Dealing with Construction Permits and Getting Electricity indicators. Ms. Shegay received her B.A. in Political Science from Berea College and her M.A. in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). At SAIS, she specialized in international development and international economics and spent her first year of studies at the Bologna Center in Italy. Ms. Shegay's previous professional experiences include the United Nations Global Compact and the Institute for New Democracies. She speaks Russian.
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Jayashree Srinivasan
Jayashree Srinivasan joined the Doing Business team in February 2008 to work on the Infrastructure indicator, she currently works on the Getting Electricity Indicator. She previously worked in the South Asia Region of the World Bank Group in the Sustainable Development Unit, where she was a part of the Urban and Water team. Before moving to Washington DC in 2002, Ms. Srinivasan worked in the New Delhi office of the World Bank Group with the Rural Development Team. She holds a master's degree in community resource management and extension from Delhi University. She speaks Hindi and Tamil.
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Susanne Szymanski
Susanne Szymanski, a Private Sector Development Specialist, joined the Doing Business team in March 2008. She leads the Getting Electricity indicator. Mrs. Szymanski holds a master's degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Munich. Prior to joining the Doing Business team, she was Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development working on trade policy and anti-corruption policy in public procurement. Mrs. Szymanski also worked in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region of the World Bank Group on water infrastructure projects. She speaks German and French.
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Moussa Traoré
Moussa joined the Doing Business team in February 2012 and works on the Registering Property indicator. He holds a J.D. from Penn State Dickinson School of Law, with a concentration in comparative and international law, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in government and politics, focusing on international relations. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he worked with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative and the US Department of State. He speaks French and is conversant in Bambara and Kyniarwanda.
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Tea Trumbic
Tea Trumbic joined the Doing Business team in November 2006. She currently leads the Paying Taxes indicator. Her prior experiences include working on EU accession policy at the Ministry of Finance in Croatia and on macroeconomic and fiscal policy for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the International Monetary Fund. Ms. Trumbic studied at Stanford University and the London School of Economics. She has lived in Serbia, Croatia, Romania, the U.K., the U.S., and France. She speaks Croatian, Serbian and French.
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Julien Vilquin
Julien Vilquin joined the Doing Business team in September 2010 and leads the Enforcing Contracts indicator. He holds law degrees from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) and from the University of Lille 2 (France). Mr. Vilquin obtained a master's degree in International Legal studies from Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, D.C.) and a master's degree in Management from EDHEC Business School (Lille, France). Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he practiced European and antitrust law at the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. He speaks French.
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César Chaparro Yedro
César Chaparro Yedro joined the Doing Business team in May 2007 and is currently on development assignment with the World Bank Group. He holds a law degree and an economics degree from Carlos III University (Spain) and spent a year of his studies at the University of Perugia (Italy). Mr. Chaparro obtained a master's degree in European studies from the College of Europe (Belgium). Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he practiced European and antitrust law at the law firm Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios in Madrid and worked as a legal advisor to the Colgate-Palmolive Company. He speaks Spanish, French and Italian.
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Yasmin Zand
Yasmin Zand joined the Doing Business team in 2009 and works as the contributor manager. She previously worked on media, marketing and communications for the report. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Yasmin was the Deputy Field Director at The Mellman Group, a research-based strategy firm in Washington DC. She also worked on the 2004 United States presidential political campaign. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from INSEAD. She speaks Farsi and is conversant in French.