11.06.2012

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Simeon Djankov has been invited to join the World Bank Knowledge Advisory Council. The Council will advise the President and the Managing Directors of the financial institutions on matters related to the knowledge agenda, including strategic advice on the roles the Bank plays as producer, connector and customizer of knowledge, the value the Bank\'s knowledge work has to its clients, the quality and the relevance of the Bank\'s knowledge work and its efforts to measure the impacts of, and the results from the Bank\'s knowledge activities.

To join the Knowledge Advisory Council have been invited the recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences - the American Michael Spence, the German Development Institute Director Dirk Messner, the former World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President Justin Yifu Lin, as well as experts and professors from the USA, Republic of Korea, Egypt, Japan and China.