Anders Olofsgård is currently deputy director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, and associate professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Before that he was associate professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He holds a Ph. D. in economics from Stockholm University, and his primary research areas are political economy and economic development. Anders has also been a visiting scholar at the research department of the IMF, and done work for among others the World Bank, USAID and the Swedish Parliament.�

Development Day 2015, May 11 ‘Finance for Sustainable Development’

Speakers’ bios

Anders �Olofsgård

Helen Eduards is the head of the Department for Aid Management, the unit at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs responsible for guiding, evaluating, monitoring and coordinating the Swedish aid budget. She has had a long and distinguished career working with Swedish governments, with previous positions at the Swedish mission at the UN and as the head of the unit for Foreign and European Affairs at the Prime Minister’s office.�

Helen Eduards

 

John McArthur is a senior fellow with the UN Foundation and the Fung Global Institute and a nonresident senior fellow in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution. Formerly CEO of Millennium Promise and deputy director of the UN Millennium Project, he focuses on development economics, international organizations, and global policy mechanisms for supporting scale-up of successful activities.�

John McArthur

 

Raj M. Desai is Associate Professor of International Development at the School of Foreign Service and in the Department of Government at Georgetown University, and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a specialist on problems of economic reform, foreign aid, and international development.�

Raj �Desai  

Theodore Talbot works with Owen Barder and the CGD Europe team. He holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in development economics from Trinity College Dublin. During his Ph.D., he was an Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Fellow in Vanuatu, where he worked in the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Theo has also worked at the Ministry for Planning and Investment in Hanoi, and for the University of Copenhagen’s Development Economics Research Group.�

Theodore Talbot  

Dean Yang is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, where he holds appointments in the Department of Economics and the Ford School of Public Policy. His current research is primarily on financial services for the poor, international migration, and areas at the intersection of these topics. He received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University. �

Dean �Yang

Charlotte Petri-Gornitzka is currently Director-General at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). She is also a member of the Board at the Swedish Research Council. She has previously served as Undersecretary-General, Swedish Red Cross, Secretary-General, Save the Children Sweden, and Secretary-General, Save the Children International. �

Charlotte Petri

Gornitzka  

Amadou Sy is senior fellow at the Brookings’ Africa Growth Initiative and a member of the Editorial Board of the Global Credit Review. He was previously deputy division chief at the International Monetary Fund. He focuses on banking, capital markets, and macroeconomics in Africa and emerging markets.�

Amadou �Sy  

Kerstin Hessius is Chief Executive Officer at Tredje AP-fonden. She is on the Board of Directors at Bjorn Borg AB, Episerver AB, Vasakronan AB, AP Fastigheter AB, Hemsö AB, and Kollegiet för Svensk Bolagsstyrning. She has over 27 years of experience in the financial sector. She was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Stockholm Stock Exchange from 2001-2004. Prior to that she was from 1999-2000 a Deputy Governor of the Swedish Central Bank. �

Kerstin Hessius  

Anneli Rogeman is CEO at We Effect and Vi-skogen, development cooperation organizations that have acted and worked with a long-term approach operating in 25 countries since 1958. Anneli Rogeman previously has worked as CEO at TV4 Uppland and Tidningen Vi and reporter and foreign correspondent at SVT Aktuellt, editorial director and deputy managing editor at SvD and other organizations. �

Anneli Rogeman  

Jolanda Profos currently works for the Development Co-operation Directorate of the OECD. As part of the Peace, Security and Governance Team she works on Conflict Minerals and manages the OECD's yearly report on Fragile States. Before joining the OECD, Jolanda worked at the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia, and at the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York. She holds M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University.�

Jolanda Profos

Adis Dzebo works at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) as a Research Associate focusing on climate change adaptation and mitigation, centered around the governance of global climate funds and the UN climate change regime. Adis has previously worked with governance of climate change at Lund University, and as a political advisor on climate and energy to the Green Party in Stockholm. He holds an M.Sc. in Climate Change and International Development from University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. �

Adis �Dzebo

Gary Milante is Director of SIPRI's Security and Development Programme. Before joining SIPRI he worked at the World Bank with the WDR team and before that in the Development Economics Research Group and the Bank’s Fragile and Conflict Affected Countries Group. His research focuses on the intersection of security and socio-economic development. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California at Irvine.�

Gary Milante  

Annika Sundén is the chief economist at Sida. Previously, she was the associate director for research at the Center for Retirement Research and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. She serves on the board of Första AP-fonden, one of the five buffer funds in the Swedish pension system. Annika earned her B.S. from the Stockholm School of Economics and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in labor economics from Cornell University.�

Annika Sundén  

Sadia Hassanen is a researcher at the MultiCultural Center, a municipal foundation engaged in research, education and cultural activities. Before that she was a postdoctoral fellow at CEIFO (Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations) & Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. She holds a Master Degree in Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences (EPHS) and a PhD in Human Geography from Stockholm University. �

Sadia Hassanen  

Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou is the Interim Coordinator of the International Dialogue on peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS), hosted by the OECD. Kathryn is a political scientist, with a PhD from Oxford and recognized expertise on conflict, peacebuilding and the extractive industries in fragile states; the subject of numerous publications, consultancies and official postings with NGOs, governments and multilateral agencies. �

Kathryn Nwajiaku-

Dahou

Julian Egan is the Head of Advocacy at International Alert. His background spans peace and conflict issues, international development assistance, foreign relations and international law. Before joining Alert Julian worked for the Australian government aid program (AusAID) for a number of years, working on conflict-affected country programs, civil–military engagement and multilateral institutions relevant to peacebuilding, including the UN Security Council.�

Julian �Egan  

Torbjörn Becker is the Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics. Prior to this he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where his most recent position was as Senior Economist in the Research Department. His work covers macroeconomics, international economics, financial markets, debt management, fiscal policy and development issues. Torbjörn holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.�

Torbjörn Becker