Mohamed Albutmeh

Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Program

Mohamed joined BIC in May 2008 as a fellow member with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Program. He works with the MENA Manager and Associate to fulfill the 2008 program. Learn more...

Soren Ambrose

Manager, Africa Program

Soren Ambrose joined BIC as its Africa Program Manager in October 2007. His interest in the IFIs was sparked during his graduate studies on Nigerian literature and politics at the University of Chicago. Learn more...

Benjamin Bryan

Assistant, Information Services Program

Ben joined BIC in September 2007 as an Assistant in the Information Services Program and works to coordinate the outreach and communications activities of BIC. Prior to joining BIC, Ben interned with the Washington, DC office of the SHARE Foundation where he helped to promote economic justice, democracy and sustainability alternatives in El Salvador. Learn more...

Alvin Carlos

Manager, Finance and Operations

Alvin has been managing BIC s finances and operations since December 2005. He has previously supported BIC's work on ADB and World Bank projects and policies in Asia. Learn more...

Nadia Daar

Intern, Information Services Program

Nadia Daar joined the Information Services Program in November 2008. She grew up in Oman for the most part, and recently moved to Washington from Toronto, Canada where she had been living since 2000. Learn more...

Chad Dobson

Executive Director

Chad Dobson joined the Bank Information Center (BIC) as its new Executive Director on December 10, 2007. Chad founded BIC in 1987 and was its Executive Director until 1996. Learn more...

Amy Ekdawi

Manager, Middle East and North Africa Program

Amy joined the Bank Information Center in May 2007 as a Program Manager for the new Middle East and North Africa Program. Before joining BIC she was Co-Director of People Advocacy. Learn more...

Jelson Garcia

Regional Coordinator, Mekong/South East Asia, Asia Program

Jelson Garcia joins BIC as the Regional Coordinator for Mekong and Southeast Asia. A Filipino national, Jelson has previously worked for a number of local and international groups, which facilitated his close interaction with indigenous communities, federations of farmers, rural workers and fishermen and the demobilized combatants. Learn more...

Nadia Hadad

Program Associate, Mekong/South East Asia, Asia Program

Based in Jakarta, Nadia joined BIC s Asia Program as the Indonesia Project Coordinator in September 2007, and on May 15, 2008, became the Program Associate for the Mekong/South East Asia Program. Prior to BIC, Nadia was with the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) for seven years. Learn more...

Rebecca Harris

Information Services Coordinator

Becky joined the Bank Information Center as its Information Services Coordinator in January 2009. She previously served on the Steering Committee of Foreign Policy Professionals for Obama, and has worked on policy regarding children s issues in the developing world, aid effectiveness, and transparency within the extractive industries. Learn more...

George Holliday

Manager, Europe and Central Asia Program

George joins BIC from the Trade Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, where he specialized on foreign economic relations of countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and China. In his five years at the OECD, he was responsible for conducting research and facilitating a dialogue on trade and economic issues between representatives of countries in the region and OECD member countries. Learn more...

Bruce Jenkins

Director, Policy Program

Bruce joined BIC as Policy Director in July 2001. Bruce concentrates on issues of social and environmental sustainability, access to information, and accountability at the multilateral development banks (MDBs). Learn more...

Joshua Klemm

Associate, Africa Program

Joshua joined BIC s Africa Program in April 2006 after spending a year and a half with the local Transparency International chapter in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the National Accountability Group. He worked with NAG from the time its office began operations, heading its research team while training the local staff on project development, report writing and basic computer literacy. Learn more...

Josh Lichtenstein

Latin America Program Manager

Josh joined BIC in October 2008. He has been an organizer and activist working on development and environment issues for more than twenty years. Learn more...

Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs

Consultant, Europe and Central Asia Program

Heike joined BIC in 2004 as the Manager of the Europe and Central Asia program and since 2006 she has been a consultant to BIC. Heike has worked for more than fourteen years in the development and environment fields for both the private and nonprofit sectors and has consulted to a wide range of organizations, including NGOs, the US government, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. Learn more...

Vince McElhinny

Manager, BICECA Project (LAC Program)

Vince brings 15 years of research and advocacy experience in Latin America specializing in trade, integration and rural development policy. He worked for three years at InterAction managing an NGO advocacy program around the Inter-American Development Bank, and has consulted widely on participation, transparency and accountability issues related to the IDB, World Bank and sub-regional banks in Latin America. Learn more...

Andres Mego

BICECA Project Researchers Coordinator, Latin America and Caribbean Program

Andres is originally from Peru and is a journalist and social communicator. He has worked for Friends of the Earth, Peru in different issues including extractive industries and climate change. Learn more...

Silvia Molina

Regional Coordinator, Latin America and Caribbean Program

Silvia Molina joins BIC as the Latin American Regional Coordinator. Silvia is responsible for promoting transparency at the multilateral development banks (MDBs), through civil society organizations (CSOs) in the region; supporting regional CSOs' advocacy campaigns; and promoting CSO participation in integration processes such as the Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA). Learn more...

Bhumika Muchhala

Associate, International Monetary Fund Program

Bhumika joined BIC in August 2007 as the Associate for the IMF Program. Previously, Bhumika was at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she conceptualized and organized large-scale policy forums and conferences on development economics issues such as policy space and assessing the Asian financial crisis ten years after its onset. Learn more...

Sanval Nasim

Intern, Asia Program

Sanval joined BIC in September 2008 as an intern for the Asia programme. Before, joining BIC, Sanval finished his undergraduate studies at Colby College where he majored in History and Economics, with a focus on environmental economics. Learn more...

Hetal Patel

Finance Associate

Hetal joined BIC in April 2008 as the Finance Associate. Hetal received her B. Learn more...

Srabani Roy

Consultant, Information Services Program

Srabani joined BIC in July 2007 as the Coordinator for the Information Services Program. Srabani has a M. Learn more...

Chonthicha Srisuk

Administrative/Finance Assistant, Mekong/South East Asia, Asia Program

Chonthicha joined BIC's Mekong office in August 2007 as the Administrative/Finance Assistant. She is also a graduate student at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University in the master's program in Educational Technology and Communications at the school of Educational Studies, and plans to complete her degree by the end of the year. Learn more...

Greg Svanidze

Intern, Europe and Central Asia Program

Greg joined BIC in September 2008 as an intern in the Europe and Central Asia Program. He is currently finishing his MA degree in International Affairs, with a major field in US Foreign Policy, at The George Washington University. Learn more...

Christian Velasquez-Donaldson

Latin America Program Associate

Christian, before joining BIC, worked with the Regional Adviser on International Trade of the UN-Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) doing research on private-public alliance for export development and economic strategies from Latin American and extra-regional case studies. He was a research fellow at the Institutions and Governance Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Institute for Advance Development Studies (INESAD), a Bolivian think tank, doing research on the Bolivian hydrocarbon policy before and after its nationalization, the sector s fiscal policy and the internal allocation system of the sector s revenues. Learn more...

Said Yakhyoev

Assistant, Europe and Central Asia Program

Said joined BIC in March 2008 as a Europe and Central Asia Program intern. Before joining BIC, Said completed a professional development program at the Aga Khan Foundation USA where he supported development projects in Central Asia. Learn more...

Mishka Zaman

Manager, Asia Program

Mishka joined BIC in February 2003 to work as the Program Manager of the Asia Program. Originally from Peshawar, Pakistan, Mishka worked for a year at ActionAid-USA on their US-India Program and for six years at SUNGI Development Foundation-Pakistan as the Program Manager of its Advocacy Unit. Learn more...

Sonia Zilberman

Consultant, Europe and Central Asia Program

Sonia joined BIC in 2007 as Program Associate for the Europe and Central Asia Program. Before joining BIC, she spent six months in The U. Learn more...

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