Category:Former World Bank Employees
The office of chief economist of the World Bank runs straight through this membership: Joseph Stiglitz held it from 1997 to 2000, Paul Romer from 2016 to 2018 and Carmen Reinhart from 2020 to 2022, and each left the post for a different reason. This category collects biographical entries on people who worked at the institution in Washington, and it is small and senior rather than broad. It holds the economists who ran its research arm, the defence secretary who ran the institution itself, and two figures who used a spell there as a step toward national office.
The chief economists
Joseph Stiglitz was appointed senior vice president and chief economist in February 1997, succeeding Michael Bruno, and served under president James Wolfensohn until February 2000; he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information and has been a persistent public critic of the institution's own orthodoxy since leaving it.
Paul Romer was appointed to the same post in October 2016 under president Jim Yong Kim, succeeding Kaushik Basu, and resigned in January 2018 after comments about Chile; he received the Nobel Memorial Prize later that year for integrating technological innovation into long-run macroeconomic analysis. Carmen Reinhart was appointed by president David Malpass in May 2020 and took office that June, at the start of a pandemic that pushed sovereign debt to levels her own research on financial crises had spent decades measuring.
From Washington to national office
Robert McNamara is the institution's own entry in this roster. He served as Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 and then as president of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981, the longer of his two tenures, and used it to move the institution's focus toward poverty reduction.
Mario Draghi worked at the Bank in Washington through the 1980s, an apprenticeship in development economics and international capital markets that preceded the Italian Treasury, the Bank of Italy, the European Central Bank and the premiership of Italy. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf held positions at the Bank alongside spells at Citibank and Equator Bank, working on development in the Caribbean and Latin America, before returning to Liberia, serving as its president from 2006 to 2018 as the first elected female head of state in Africa, and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
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