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                                                              Biography                 

 

Career

1980-1981: DULBEA, Economics Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles: Researcher and co-manager of a project on corporate financial modeling

1981-1982: International Monetary Fund, Institute, Lecturer in Econometrics and Macroeconomic Financial Programming

1982-2007: The World Bank, working on:

· Reforms, Public-Private partnerships and regulation of utilities and transport services

· Pricing of infrastructure services

· Public sector and public enterprise performance monitoring and efficiency measurement

· Decentralization of infrastructure services

· Provincial and municipal reform

· National and subnational environmental management

· Tax reform, public expenditure reviews and price liberalization

· Pollution control policy

· Macroeconomic performance evaluation

· Impact evaluation

Current Research

  The measure of efficiency in regulated network industries

 The measure of the impact of regulatory reforms

  The nexus between infrastructure regulation and competition policy

 Public sector debt sustainability

 Public sector performance evaluation

 Assessment of the impact of sector reforms on corruption levels

 Social incidence of environmental adaptation policies

 Impact of girls’ education on the efficiency of public expenditures

 

Other professional activities:

·            Member of the Research Advisory Board of the World Bank (2003-now)

·            Member of the Advisory Board, Journal of Network Industries (2003-now), Utilities Policy (2004-now), World Bank Economic Review (2000-2004), Revue Economique de Louvain (2006-now)

·            Reviewer for the Economic Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Public Finance Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Revue Française d’Economie, Transport Policy, Utilities Policy, World Bank Economic Review, World Bank Research Observer, World Development