About Us

The Public Sector Governance Group brings together people working across the Bank on lending and non-lending activities relating to core public sector reform, including civil service reform, public expenditures, tax policy and administration, decentralization/intergovernmental fiscal relations, and generic issues in public service delivery.

About 200 professionals work on thesse topics in the various regional and anchor PREM units and in Development Research Group (DRG) and World Bank Institute (WBI), and their work is overseen by the Public Sector Board. Representing each of the six regions, WBI and DRG, and supported by a Public Sector anchor unit, the Public Sector Governance Board consists of the following members:

Chair	Sanjay Pradhan
Sector Manager	Randi Ryterman
Africa Region	to be annouced
East Asia and the Pacific Region	Helen Sutch
Europe and Central Asia Region	Helga Muller
Latin America and Caribbean Region	Ronald E. Myers
Middle East and North Africa Region	Pedro Alba Charles Humphreys
South Asia Region	Robert Beschel
World Bank Institute	Daniel Kaufmann Robert Ebel
Development Research Group	Ritva Reinikka
Legal	Maria Dakolias Mohan Gopal
Operations Policy and Country Services	Paul Bermingham
Private Sector Development and Infrastructure	Michael Klein Simeon Djankov

The Public Sector Group operates Bank-wide primarily through networks of thematic specialists in several thematic areas. Each such network is known as a Thematic Group. Provided below are the names of the Public Sector Governance thematic groups, and the names and profiles of the thematic groups coordinators:

Anticorruption	Jose Edgardo L. Campos
Civil Service Reform	Ranjana Mukherjee
Decentralization	Dana Weist
E-Government	Arsala Deane
Legal and Judicial Reform	Rick Messick Lubomira Beardsley
Public Expenditure Analysis and Management	William Dorotinsky Anand Rajaram
Tax Policy and Administration	Michael Engelschalk