Joe Athialy

South Asia Coordinator

Joe Athialy is BIC s Coordinator for South Asia. Formerly the Campaigns and Communications Coordinator of Amnesty International (AI) in India, Joe steered AI s national campaigns which included moratorium on the death penalty, promotion of housing rights and furthering corporate accountability. Learn more...

Erin Carey

Climate Finance Coordinator

Erin joined BIC in May 2009. She recently completed her MS degree in Natural Resource Management at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment where she studied environmental policy and climate change, including international climate finance. Learn more...

Alvin Carlos

Development Director

Alvin has been with BIC since December 2005. He has previously supported BIC's work on ADB and World Bank projects and policies in Asia. Learn more...

Yong Chen

Sustainable Energy Expert

Yong joined Bank Information Center as a sustainable energy expert in December 2009, after seven years as a research associate at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). At SEI, Yong led and participated in a portfolio of policy research projects on energy and climate issues with a geographic focus on Europe and Asia. Learn more...

Nadia Daar

Associate, Middle East and North Africa Program

Nadia joined BIC's Information Services Program in November 2008 and after doing some project work with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) program, she took on a full time staff position with the program in May 2009. Nadia grew up in Oman and moved to Toronto, Canada to pursue her Honors BA in Political Science, Economics, and Music History and Culture at the University of Toronto. Learn more...

Hassatou Diallo

Africa Program Intern

Hassatou joined BIC in July 2009 as an Intern with the Africa program. She recently completed her master of international management degree with a concentration in international finance from the University of Maryland University College. Learn more...

Chad Dobson

Executive Director

Chad Dobson joined the Bank Information Center (BIC) as its new Executive Director on December 10, 2007. Chad founded BIC in 1987 and was its Executive Director until 1996. Learn more...

Amy Ekdawi

Manager, Middle East and North Africa Program

Amy joined the Bank Information Center in May 2007 as a Program Manager for the new Middle East and North Africa Program. Before joining BIC she was Co-Director of People Advocacy. Learn more...

Jelson Garcia

Manager, Asia Program

Jelson Garcia is the Manager for BIC's Asia Program. A Filipino national, Jelson has previously worked for a number of local and international groups, which facilitated his close interaction with indigenous communities, federations of farmers, rural workers and fishermen and the demobilized combatants. Learn more...

Nadia Hadad

Program Associate, Mekong/South East Asia, Asia Program

Based in Jakarta, Nadia joined BIC s Asia Program as the Indonesia Project Coordinator in September 2007, and on May 15, 2008, became the Program Associate for the Mekong/South East Asia Program. Prior to BIC, Nadia was with the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) for seven years. Learn more...

Rebecca Harris

Information Services Coordinator

Becky joined the Bank Information Center as its Information Services Coordinator in January 2009. She previously served on the Steering Committee of Foreign Policy Professionals for Obama, and has worked on policy regarding children s issues in the developing world, aid effectiveness, and transparency within the extractive industries. Learn more...

Bruce Jenkins

Policy Consultant

Bruce served as BIC's Policy Director from 2001 until 2009, before becoming a consultant. Bruce concentrates on issues of social and environmental sustainability, access to information, and accountability at the multilateral development banks (MDBs). Learn more...

Joshua Klemm

Manager, Africa Program

Joshua joined BIC s Africa Program in April 2006 after spending a year and a half with the local Transparency International chapter in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the National Accountability Group. He worked with NAG from the time its office began operations, heading its research team while training the local staff on project development, report writing and basic computer literacy. Learn more...

Josh Lichtenstein

Manager, Latin America Program

Josh joined BIC in October 2008. He has been an organizer and activist working on development and environment issues for more than twenty years. Learn more...

Jakob Loukas

Executive Intern

Jake joined BIC as an intern in July, 2009. He is working toward his Master s at American University in U. Learn more...

Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs

Consultant, Europe and Central Asia Program

Heike joined BIC in 2004 as the Manager of the Europe and Central Asia program and since 2006 she has been a consultant to BIC. Heike has worked for more than fourteen years in the development and environment fields for both the private and nonprofit sectors and has consulted to a wide range of organizations, including NGOs, the US government, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. Learn more...

Vince McElhinny

Manager, BICECA Project (LAC Program)

Vince brings 15 years of research and advocacy experience in Latin America specializing in trade, integration and rural development policy. He worked for three years at InterAction managing an NGO advocacy program around the Inter-American Development Bank, and has consulted widely on participation, transparency and accountability issues related to the IDB, World Bank and sub-regional banks in Latin America. Learn more...

Andres Mego

BICECA Project Researchers Coordinator, Latin America and Caribbean Program

Andres is originally from Peru and is a journalist and social communicator. He has worked for Friends of the Earth, Peru in different issues including extractive industries and climate change. Learn more...

Norly Mercado

Mekong/Southeast Asia Coordinator

Norly has thirteen years of extensive experience in civil society network in Asia coordinating advocacy work, research, problem project monitoring as well as resource mobilization. Before BIC, she was with the Penang-based Pesticide Action Network-Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) and the People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) in her capacity as Coordinator, then eventually as Programme Consultant. Learn more...

Benjamin Natkin

Assistant, Information Services Program

Ben joined BIC in August 2009 as an intern for the Information Services Program. Originally from Lexington, Virginia, he recently graduated from the George Washington University with a B. Learn more...

Hetal Patel

Finance Associate

Hetal joined BIC in April 2008 as the Finance Associate. Hetal received her B. Learn more...

Chonthicha Srisuk

Administrative/Finance Assistant, Mekong/South East Asia, Asia Program

Chonthicha joined BIC's Mekong office in August 2007 as the Administrative/Finance Assistant. She is also a graduate student at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University in the master's program in Educational Technology and Communications at the school of Educational Studies, and plans to complete her degree by the end of the year. Learn more...

Christian Velasquez-Donaldson

Associate, Latin America Program

Christian, before joining BIC, worked with the Regional Adviser on International Trade of the UN-Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) doing research on private-public alliance for export development and economic strategies from Latin American and extra-regional case studies. He was a research fellow at the Institutions and Governance Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Institute for Advance Development Studies (INESAD), a Bolivian think tank, doing research on the Bolivian hydrocarbon policy before and after its nationalization, the sector s fiscal policy and the internal allocation system of the sector s revenues. Learn more...

Ashley Warriner

Intern, BICECA Project and Latin America Program

Ashley joined BIC in August 2009. Over the past 3 years, she has worked on community and rural development projects, as well as human rights and environmental advocacy in Mexico and Argentina. Learn more...

Said Yakhyoev

Associate, Europe and Central Asia Program

Said joined BIC in March 2008 as a Europe and Central Asia Program intern. Before joining BIC, Said completed a professional development program at the Aga Khan Foundation USA where he supported development projects in Central Asia. Learn more...

Aynabat Yaylymova

Project Manager, Europe and Central Asia Program

Aynabat joined BIC as the Europe and Central Asia Project Manager in September 2009. Prior to joining BIC, she worked as the Central Eurasian Leadership Academy (CELA) Project Manager. Learn more...

Dilshod Yusupov

Intern, Europe & Central Asia Program

Dilshod joined BIC in August 2009 as an intern for the Europe and Central Asia Program. Over the past year he has worked for local think tank and microfinance organization called MACED (Mountain Association for Community Economic Development) in Berea, KY as a research assistant for Research and Policy Department. Learn more...

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