About the Editors and Authors
of Ecuador, and in November 1996, he was chosen by Euromoney Magazine as the year’s “Best Latin Central Banker.” From 1986 to 1992, he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where, among other positions, he was the IMF’s Resident Representative in Venezuela (1991–92). Mr. de la Torre has published extensively on a broad range of macroeconomic and financial development topics. He is a member of the Carnegie Network of Economic Reformers. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Notre Dame and holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Catholic University of Ecuador. Shantayanan Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network and of the South Asia Region. He was the director of the World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is coauthor of more than 100 publications. His research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Born in Sri Lanka, Mr. Devarajan received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Mark A. Dutz is leading the work program on innovation and inclusive growth in the Economic Policy and Debt Department of the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network. As part of the Bank’s recent work on business and government-business relations, he was lead author and editor of Unleashing India’s Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, which has been translated into Chinese, Hindi, and Japanese. Dr. Dutz has worked in all geographic regions of the Bank Group and in the Office of the Chief Economist. His experiences outside the World Bank include Senior Consultant with Compass-Lexecon, a private sector consulting firm, where he focused on intellectual property, innovation, antitrust, and information and communications technology issues; Senior Adviser to the State Minister of Economy, where he concentrated on infrastructure and private sector development issues in Ankara, Turkey; Principal Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, where he had responsibilities for policy and research
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