Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council hosted a presentation and discussion on possible future scenarios for Pakistan between Jonathan Paris of King’s College London and Shahid Yusuf of the World Bank.  Shuja Nawaz, director of the Council's South Asia Center, moderated the discussion and Q&A session.

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Participant Bios:

Jonathan Paris
Jonathan was a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York from 1995-2000 where he worked on the Middle East peace process, the MENA Economic Summits and the Middle East Economic Strategy Group chaired by Paul A. Volcker. While at CFR, he also co-edited the first book on Indonesia’s democratic transition, The Politics of Post-Suharto Indonesia (Brookings/CFR 1999).

In 2001, he moved to London where he concentrates on US foreign policy, national security and diplomatic strategy. His current focus is on the future of Pakistan. He is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR) at King’s College London, a Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS), and an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute.

A former Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford from 2004-2005, he is a graduate of Yale University (where he taught from 1994-97) and Stanford Law School.

Shahid Yusuf
Shahid Yusuf, Economic Adviser, Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge University. Dr. Yusuf is the team leader for the World Bank-Japan project on East Asia’s Future Economy. He was the Director of the World Development Report 1999/2000, Entering the 21st Century. Prior to that, he was Economic Adviser to the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist (1997-98), Lead Economist for the East Africa Department (1995-97) and Lead Economist for the China and Mongolia Department (1989-1993). Dr. Yusuf has also served the World Bank in several other capacities since he first joined the Young Professionals Program in 1974.

Dr. Yusuf has written extensively on development issues, with a special focus on East Asia. His publications include: China's Rural Development, co-authored with Dwight H. Perkins (John Hopkins Press); The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities, with Weiping Wu (Oxford University Press 1997); Rethinking the East Asian Miracle, with co-editor Joseph Stiglitz (Oxford University Press 2001); Facets of Globalization: International and Local Dimensions of Development; and Localization in an Era of Globalization, both co-edited with Weiping Wu and Simon Evenett (Oxford University Press 2000); Can East Asia Compete? Innovation for Global Markets with Simon Evenett (Oxford University Press 2002); Shahid Yusuf et al., Innovative East Asia: The Future of Growth (Oxford University Press 2003); Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia and Global Change and East Asian Policy Initiatives, both co-edited with M. Anjum Altaf and Kaoru Nabeshima (Oxford University Press 2004); Under New Ownership, co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima and Dwight H. Perkins (Stanford University Press 2005); and China’s Development Challenges, co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima (World Bank forthcoming 2006). He has also published widely in various academic journals.

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