Principle Associates
Our principle associates are internationally
known, having spent decades in the field of economic development. They
are highly educated and have
significant academic accomplishments including published work in reputed
journals.
Dr. John Holson
John Holsen has had a distinguished career in the field
of international economics. He is widely acknowledged as the “father” of the
Revised Minimum Standards Model (RMSM-X) that forms the backbone of the
country economic and sector work of the World Bank. He has done a great
deal of innovative economic and statistical work at the World Bank, including
the refinement of the so-called Atlas methodology to rank member countries
by income level, which is an important ingredient of the World Bank’s
lending program. He had held very high level positions at the World Bank,
which included Director, Country Economics Department, Chief Economist,
Latin America and the Caribbean, and Chief Economist, South Asia region
of the World Bank. In these capacities, he had been instrumental in both
shaping the country assistance strategies of the World Bank and influencing
economic policy implementation of World Bank member countries. He is
a graduate of the University of Chicago, USA.
Dr. Thilak Ranaweera
Thilak Ranaweera has worked for the United Nations
Development Program, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
as a Senior Economist.
He has advised, designed, and participated in the implementation of economic
and sector work in numerous multilateral agency initiatives, including
but not limited to: country economic memoranda, public expenditure reviews
(PER), development policy reviews (DPR), fiscal sustainability (FS) and
external debt sustainability (DSA) and country assistance strategies
(CAS and PRSP). An expert econometrician, he specializes in assisting
Central Banks and Finance Ministries in building medium-term macroeconomic
frameworks for fiscal and monetary policy analysis. He is a graduate
of the University of Birmingham, England, UK.
Dr. Michael Lewin
Michael Lewin worked for the World Bank for more than
a decade and a half as a Senior Economist in the Latin America and the
Caribbean Vice
Presidency and Development Economics Vice Presidency. He was a task manager
in the development, dissemination and support of the Revised Minimum
Standard Model – Extended (RMSM-X). This involved providing support
to country teams in macroeconomic modeling using the standard Bank framework
and running intensive training workshops for country analysts and economists.
Michael has taught economics at various institutions of higher learning
including Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University
of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and holds a doctorate in
economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Martin Gurria
Martin Gurria is an Economist with a focus in competition
practices and the implementation of technology in the public and private
sectors.
He has a unique understanding of the different types of government support
programs in traditional economic sectors. He is currently working with
key Central American governments in the review of their technology support
strategies. He has broad experience in working in developing countries
and managing international projects, and is currently involved in introducing
the Spanish experience in Public Private Partnerships in Latin America.
He has worked for the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Egypt advising
on exports strategies. Martin holds a Masters in International Economics
(2000) from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
(SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a director and founder
of ADECSO.
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