WALY WANE

World Bank

Senior Economist

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Waly Wane is a Senior Economist in the Education Global Practice of the World Bank Group. He is the Program Manager for SDI and a founding member of the initiative. Service Delivery is among his main areas of interest and research. He has also worked on public finance, poverty, human development. He has led several public expenditure tracking surveys (PETS) and Quantitative Service Delivery Surveys (QSDS) in Africa and East Asia. He has published in peer-reviewed journals as the Journal of Public Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of African Economies.

CHRISTOPHE ROCKMORE

World Bank

Senior Economist

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Christophe is a Senior Economist in the Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice of the World Bank Group. Christophe has worked in various areas during his tenure at the World Bank such as statistical capacity development, monitoring and evaluation, and donor coordination. More recently, he has focused on service delivery questions and health and human development projects in fragile and non-fragile contexts.

RAIHONA ATAKHODJAYEVA

World Bank

Operations Analyst

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Raihona Atakhodjayeva is an Operations Analyst in the Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice of the World Bank Group working on projects in Africa region. Prior to joining the SDI team, Raihona worked at the World Bank’s South Asia Region as part of the country management unit overseeing the Bank’s development assistance to India. Raised in Soviet Uzbekistan, she has deep passion for the topic of service delivery in various sectors of the economy particularly, in education and health

Roberta Gatti

World Bank Group

Chief Economist for Human Development Global Practice

Roberta Gatti is the Chief Economist of the Human Development practice group in the World Bank. Roberta joined the World Bank in 1998 as a Young Professional in the Development Research Group. Her papers, which includes theoretical and empirical contributions on labor and household economics, political economy, growth, and social inclusion, are published in international refereed journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economic Growth, and the Journal of Development Economics. After a period based in the Bank’s office in Bulgaria, Roberta became sector manager and Human Development Lead Economist in the Middle East and North Africa and then in the Europe and Central Asia regions, overseeing work on aging, skills, jobs, pensions, social safety nets, and the Roma inclusion agenda. She also worked as Lead Economist based in the Bank’s Warsaw office and as the Global Lead for Labor policies. Roberta is the lead author of numerous World Bank flagship reports, including Jobs for Shared Prosperity: Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa and Being Fair, Faring Better: Promoting Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma. Roberta holds a B.A. from Università Bocconi and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and has taught at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities.