Homi Kharas

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Homi Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution. Formerly a chief economist in the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank, Kharas currently leads a research project on aid agency effectiveness, and also has expertise on East Asia development and global economic trends. He was the Chief Economist of the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank and Director of the region's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department from 1999-2007 and has been following East Asian economies since 1982. He joined the World Bank in 1980 and has worked in the Research Department, the Latin America and Caribbean region, and the Economic Policy Department. From 1990 to 1991, He worked as a Senior Partner with Jeffrey D. Sachs and Associates, advising countries in East/Central Europe and the Soviet Union on transition issues. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University and his undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely in the areas of external debt and developing countries foreign borrowing and fiscal risks and contingent liabilities.