Deepak Bhattasali, Lead Economist, East Asian and Pacific Region, World Bank

Deepak Bhattasali returned to the World Bank's headquarters in Washington DC after a five-year stint in Beijing, where he was Chief of the Economics Unit and Lead Economist for China with the World Bank's China Program. Prior to that, in the World Bank Group he has worked in IFC's Capital Markets Department, in the Eastern Africa industry and finance sector department, and on several country desks—including Yugoslavia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ethiopia and China, and as the economic adviser to the two Vice Presidents for Sub-Saharan Africa. He has been on two field assignments for the World Bank— Indonesia (1985-89) and China (1999-2004). In-between, in 1996, he was on a staff exchange program in Asia with Hewlett-Packard. Since April, Mr. Bhattasali has been supporting the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, former US President Bill Clinton, representing the World Bank and assisting on aid management and economics issues.

Mr. Bhattasali has a Ph.D. in economics, and studied in Delhi, Tokyo and Boston. Prior to joining the World Bank Group through its Young Professionals Program, he worked with a Japanese government aid agency in Tokyo, in the economics-teaching faculty at Boston University, and as an economist with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York . He has also taught at Georgetown University and the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Bhattasali has specialized in finance, trade and growth. His recent publications include a 2003 volume on intergovernmental fiscal relationships and a 2004 volume entitled China and the WTO: Accession, Policy Reform and Poverty Reduction Strategies , in addition to a number of articles on East Asian growth, trade, fiscal and financial issues.

迪帕克.巴塔沙里在北京工作了5年后回到世界银行华盛顿总部，在北京工作期间，他担任经济部门主任和世界银行中国项目首席经济学家。在此之前，他就职于世界银行国际金融公司资本市场部，东非工业和金融部，并负责多个国家项目，包括南斯拉夫、马来西亚、印度尼西亚、埃塞俄比亚和中国，并曾担任两个撒哈拉以南非洲国家副总统的经济顾问。他负责起草世界银行印尼（1985－1989）和中国（1999－2004）长期计划合作纲要。此间，他参与了1996年惠普公司亚洲区人员交流咨询项目。从4月开始，巴塔沙里先生加入了由美国前总统克林顿担任特使的联合国灾后援建办公室，代表世界银行负责救援物资的管理和当地经济问题。

巴塔沙里先生拥有经济学博士学位，曾在德里，东京和波士顿学习。在参加世界银行的青年学者计划之前，他就职于东京的日本政府对外援助机构，在波士顿大学担任过经济学教师，还在纽约大通曼哈顿银行做过经济师。他曾在乔治城大学和约翰霍普金斯大学高级国际事务研究院任教。