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Emmanuel Jimenez
From the Philippines, has held a variety of positions as an economist and manager in the policy, research and operational units of the World Bank.  Since early 2002, he has also been Sector Director, Human Development, in the World Bank’s East Asia Region, where he is responsible for managing operational staff working on education and health issues.  Prior to this position, he held a similar position in the Bank’s South Asia Region.  Before that he served for many years in the Bank’s Development Economics Staff, where he managed staff and also engaged in research on a variety of topics, including education and health finance, the private provision of social services, the economics of transfer programs and urban development.  He recently took time off from his operational duties to lead the team that prepared Bank’s flagship publication, the World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation.  He also serves as the current editor of the journal, The World Bank Research Observer.  Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Jimenez was on the faculty of the economics department at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.