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Foundation
staff and delegates
| Dr. Marco Ferroni
- Executive Director, Designate
Marco Ferroni will take up his appointment as Executive Director Designate on 15 October
and will initially spend time getting to know the Foundations Programmes in Latin
America, Africa and Asia, before taking up residence in Basel and assuming his
responsibilities as Executive Director on 1 January 2008.
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Marco Ferroni, a former executive at the Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB) in Washington DC, has extensive management and
operational experience in government and multilateral institutions. He
has designed, negotiated and implemented many operational programs
in developing and middle-income countries and combines managerial,
analytical and interpersonal skills with a recognized ability to lead and
motivate, form partnerships, and mobilize resources.
As the Deputy Manager of the Sustainable Development Department of the IDB until July
2007, Mr. Ferroni had responsibility for the development of regional sector policy and
technical project support to the Bank’s country departments. He made contributions to
knowledge management and led economic and sector work with a particular focus on
sustainability issues (economic, social, governance, competitiveness and environmental).
Prior to this assignment, Mr. Ferroni was the IDB’s principal evaluation officer in the Bank’s
independent Office of Evaluation and Oversight. In this capacity he directed numerous
evaluation studies that assessed the relevance, performance, and results of Bank strategies,
policies, instruments, and country programs while working with Bank management, the
Board of Executive Directors and borrowing countries to build learning communities, explain
evaluation results, and strengthen the demand and authorizing environment for independent
evaluation.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Ferroni was a senior advisor to the World Bank’s Vice Presidency
for Resource Mobilization and Co-financing (now the Concessional Finance and Global
Partnerships Vice Presidency), a member of the Boards of Executive Directors of the IDB
and the Inter-American Investment Corporation representing European constituencies, and an
economist, program manager and division chief at the Ministries of Public Economy and
Foreign Affairs in Switzerland.
At the World Bank, Mr. Ferroni spearheaded work on
global/international public goods, advising the Bank on this then emerging topic and the
implications for donors and foreign aid. Working for the Swiss Government, Mr. Ferroni
(among many other responsibilities) managed balance-of-payments support to developing
countries and conducted operations of a bilateral debt reduction facility that sought to lower
bilateral external debt obligations of eligible low-income debtors and brought Swiss position
on eligible Paris Club debt to de minimis status for these countries.
Mr. Ferroni holds a doctoral degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University. He
has worked in Latin America and Africa and has published and lectures frequently on foreign
aid, debt and development finance, international public goods, social protection and the
Millennium Development Goals, and sustainability challenges in open economies in the
context of globalization.
Marco Ferroni is a Swiss national. He is married to Ann
Ferroni-Strattner, a US citizen. The couple have two children
aged 20 and 25.
Read
official announcement [PDF 72KB]
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