Harvard Associate-Professor and former AKF Scholar Alnoor Ebrahim invited to testify before U.S. House of Representatives on reform, accountability efforts at World Bank

Testimony of Alnoor Ebrahim, Associate Professor Harvard University Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives September 10, 2009, Washington, D.C. On The World Bank’s Disclosure Policy Review, and the Role of Democratic Participatory Processes in Achieving Successful Development Outcomes

Chairman Frank, Ranking Member Bachus, and members of the Committee: Thank you for inviting me to testify before you. My name is Alnoor Ebrahim, and I am an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a Principal of the Hauser Center For Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. I have worked as a consultant to the World Bank as well as to a number of international non-governmental organizations. My testimony focuses on reform and accountability efforts undertaken at the World Bank over the past fifteen years …

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Professor Ebrahim is author of the award-winning book, NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003 and 2005), and is co-editor, with Edward Weisband, of Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which compares accountability dilemmas in nonprofits, business, and government. He has been the recipient of awards for best article in the journals Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

EXPERIENCE
8/91 – 2/92 Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, India
Fellow, International Development Management, Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Worked with an NGO in western India on developing a village institutions monitoring system,
impact studies, and a regional sustainable agriculture network.

http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facId=396876
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/faculty/cv/AlnoorEbrahim.pdf