Deepak Bhattasali returned to the World Bank's headquarters in Washington DC after a five-year stint in Beijing, where he was Chief of the Economics Unit and Lead Economist for China with the World Bank's China Program. Prior to that, in the World Bank Group he has worked in IFC's Capital Markets Department, in the Eastern Africa industry and finance sector department, and on several country desks—including Yugoslavia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ethiopia and China, and as the economic adviser to the two Vice Presidents for Sub-Saharan Africa. He has been on two field assignments for the World Bank— Indonesia (1985-89) and China (1999-2004). In-between, in 1996, he was on a staff exchange program in Asia with Hewlett-Packard. Since April, Mr. Bhattasali has been supporting the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, former US President Bill Clinton, representing the World Bank and assisting on aid management and economics issues.
Mr. Bhattasali has a Ph.D. in economics, and studied in Delhi, Tokyo and Boston . Prior to joining the World Bank Group through its Young Professionals Program, he worked with a Japanese government aid agency in Tokyo , in the economics-teaching faculty at Boston University, and as an economist with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. He has also taught at Georgetown University and the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Bhattasali has specialized in finance, trade and growth. His recent publications include a 2003 volume on intergovernmental fiscal relationships and a 2004 volume entitled China and the WTO: Accession, Policy Reform and Poverty Reduction Strategies, in addition to a number of articles on East Asian growth, trade, fiscal and financial issues.
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