Mr. Henry Mooney

MPA/Mid Career, Kennedy School of Government

Henry Mooney is a Mid-Career MPA candidate and a Mason Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is currently on a sabbatical from the IMF, where he has worked since 2002, including with the IMF’s Secretariat, as a mission economist in Africa, and as the Deputy IMF Secretary of the G24.

Mr. Carlos Braga

The World Bank

Mr. Carlos Braga is Director of the World Bank’s Economic Policy and Dept Department, which supports low-income countries in the areas of growth diagnostics, debt-management policy advice, and macroeconomic policies. He previously served as Head of the World Bank’s International Policy and Partnerships Group, which coordinated the Bank’s international aid architecture agenda and managed strategic relationships with bilateral agencies and regional development banks. Mr. Braga also served as the World Bank’s representative to the WTO in Geneva. He joined the World Bank in 1991 as an economist, and previously worked with Organization of American States. Mr. Braga was a Fulbright Scholar and Professor at the Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois.

Mr. Patrick Cirillo

The International Monetary Fund

Patrick Cirillo is currently Deputy Chief of Operations in the Secretariat of the International Monetary Fund. Until recently, he was also the IMF Secretary to the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G24), which brings together major developing countries. Previously, he was Deputy Chief of Public Affairs in the IMF's External Relations Department. Before joining the IMF in 1996, Patrick was a Ph.D. candidate at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (HEI) in Geneva, Switzerland. He received his Masters and BA from the University of Toronto.

Mr. Jamil Mahuad

Former President of Ecuador

Jamil Mahuad served as President of Ecuador from August 1998 to January 2000, capping a career of nearly 20 years in Ecuadorian politics, which included two terms as Mayor of Quito and as member of the National Congress. Before leaving office, President Mahuad put forward signficant economic reforms, including the dollarization of the economy. He is a recipient of the World Wild Fund Gift to the Earth Award (1999) for his policies on environmental protection and is a Nobel Peace Price Nominee (1999) for the signing of a definitive Peace Treaty with neighbor country Peru. He currently lectures Negotiation, Leadership, and the challenges facing struggling democracies in the age of globalization at universities across the world, and is the Co-founder and Senior Adviser of the International Negotiation Initiative, at Harvard Law School. He holds a MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Mason Fellow, and a JD from the Catholic University of Ecuador.

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