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Carlos
Alberto Primo Braga, a Brazilian national, is currently
the Senior Manager of the Informatics Program at the Information
Solutions Group of the World Bank. He is responsible for
the management of the Development Gateway portal -- a web-based
initiative for sharing information on development-related
topics - acting as the liaison between the World Bank Group
and the Development Gateway Foundation. Before assuming
this position in June 2001, Mr. Braga was the Manager of
infoDev (the Information for Development Program), a multi-donor
grant facility administered by the Global Information and
Communication Technologies Department. In that capacity,
he was responsible for a portfolio of more than 200 innovative
projects funded by infoDev grants worldwide. He was also
in charge of the Bank's Y2K outreach activities in the period
1998-2000.
Dr.
Braga joined the World Bank Group in 1991, as an economist
in the International Trade Division of the Bank's International
Economics Department. Over the 1991-94 period, he was responsible
for research and projects focusing on trade in services,
intellectual property rights, regional integration agreements,
and trade and the environment. He was the main author of
a Board paper on regionalism and, together with UNCTAD staff,
prepared Liberalizing International Trade in Services: A
Handbook (1994). In 1995, he moved to the Industry &
Energy Department as Senior Economist. In 1997, he was appointed
Program Manager of infoDev that was then hosted by the Energy,
Mining & Telecommunications Department.
Prior
to joining the Bank, Dr. Braga served as a consultant to
the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1990. He was
a Fulbright Scholar (1988/89) at the Paul Nitze School for
Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins
University and taught there as a visiting professor over
the 1988-98 period. He was also an assistant professor at
the Faculdade de Economia e Administracao (University of
Sao Paulo), and Senior Researcher at the Fundacao Instituto
de Pesquisas Economicas, both in Brazil, in the 1980s. He
has also been a lecturer on the economics of intellectual
property rights at the World Trade Institute at the University
of Berne.
Dr.
Braga received a degree in Mechanical Engineering (1976)
from the Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (Brazil),
and an MSc (1980) in Economics from the University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil. He holds a PhD (1984) in Economics from the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
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