Chair Marcelo Giugale is the World Bank’s Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Africa. An international development leader, his more than twenty years of experience span the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin-America and Africa, where he led senior-level policy dialogue and over fifteen billion dollars in lending operations across the development spectrum. He has published widely on economic policy, finance, development economics, business, agriculture and applied econometrics. Notably, he was the chief editor of collections of policy notes published for the presidential transitions in Mexico (2000), Colombia (2002), Ecuador (2003), Bolivia (2006) and Peru (2006). His opinion editorials are published in the leading newspapers and blog-sites of Latin-America and the USA. He received decorations from the governments of Bolivia and Peru, and taught at the American University in Cairo, The London School of Economics, and the Universidad Católica Argentina. A citizen of Argentina and Italy, he holds a PhD and a MSc in Economics from The London School of Economics, and a Suma-Cum-Laude BA in Economics from Universidad Católica Argentina. Panel Members Mayra Buvinic, a Chilean national and internationally respected expert on gender and social development, is the Bank's senior spokesperson on gender and development issues. Before joining the Bank in 2005, she was Chief of the Social Development Division at the Inter- American Development Bank and the IDB's Special Advisor on Violence Prevention. Prior to this, she was a founding member and President of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) in Washington, D.C. Ms. Buvinic holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree both in social psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Caren Grown is Senior Gender Advisor in the Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning (USAID) and on leave as Economist-In-Residence at American University, where she also co-directs the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics. Formerly, she was Senior Scholar and Co-Director of the Gender Equality and Economy Program at The Levy Economics Institute at Bard College and Director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Governance team at the International Center for Research on Women. From , she served as Senior Associate of Task Force 3 of the UN Millennium Project, an advisory group to UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan, on gender equality and women's empowerment. She has published extensively and her recent books include Taxation and Gender Equity, co-edited with I. Valodia (2010), The Feminist Economics of Trade, co-edited with I. Van Staveren, D. Elson, and N. Cagatay (2007), and Trading Women's Health and Rights: the Role of Trade Liberalization and Development, co-edited with E. Braunstein and A. Malhotra (2006). She is the lead author (with G. Gupta) of Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women (2005). Dr. Grown is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics, a member of the External Gender Forum of the Asian Development Bank, and a founding member of the International Working Group on Gender and Macroeconomics. She holds a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research. GAP Development Seminar Series gender equality as smart economics Frontier Thinking on Gender and Development: Emerging Issues and Institutional Responses Frontier Thinking on Gender and Development: Emerging Issues and Institutional Responses

Susanna Moorehead was appointed UK Executive Director to the World Bank in September Susanna joined the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in She has held a number of posts including Head of Governance and Social Development Policy and Head of DFID India, the UK’s largest bilateral aid programme in the world. Prior to joining DFID, Susanna was Deputy Director of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She has also conducted research and worked for NGOs in Africa and South Asia. She has a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Andrew Morrison is Chief of the Gender and Diversity Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank. Prior to joining the IDB, he worked at the World Bank as a Lead Economist in the Gender and Development Group and as the Regional Gender Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean. He also has worked as an associate professor of economics at Tulane University and the University of New Mexico. He has written books and articles in the area of gender equality, international migration, labor markets and violence prevention. He has a PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University. Ana Revenga is the Director of Poverty Reduction and Equity group at the World Bank and Co- Director of the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development. Between 2005 and 2008, she was Lead Economist for Human Development and Manager, Labor and Social Protection, in the East Asia and the Pacific region. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked in the Research Department of Central Bank of Spain and taught labor and international economics at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios and Financieros. She has published extensively on poverty, labor and trade issues, and has worked across a broad spectrum of countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. She was one of the authors of the 1995 World Development Report (Workers in an Integrating World) and contributed to the 2006 World Development Report (Equity and Development). She has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and a degree in Human Rights from the Law Faculty, at the University of Geneva. Annika Törnqvist is Lead Gender Specialist at the Department for Policy Support at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). She has twenty years of experience on social development and gender equality in international development banks and NGOs. She has worked in Sweden, the US, Kenya, and Sri Lanka. During her tenure at SIDA, she worked in strengthening the institution’s strategic development and capacity on gender mainstreaming. She initiated and ran an initiative on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) and has co-authored policies on gender equality in bilateral and multilateral organizations. During her tenure at the World Bank, she worked among other things on gender mainstreaming in operations which resulted in a range of good practice products in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Ecuador. She has a MA in International Development from American University, Washington, D.C. and a B.A. in political science from Stockholm University. GAP Development Seminar Series gender equality as smart economics Frontier Thinking on Gender and Development: Emerging Issues and Institutional Responses Frontier Thinking on Gender and Development: Emerging Issues and Institutional Responses