The completion of the MA program at the CDE should not be the end of our contact with alumni. We want to hear from our alumni about significant events in their lives including promotions, new jobs, marriages, children, publications, or any information that fellows might want shared with classmates or the CDE administration and faculty. To facilitate this we encourage all alumni to keep their information for our database up to date and send us news frequently.
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Mini-reunion, Tokyo. Five CDE alumni (along with 11 other participants) attended a training course for the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program alunmi. In the photo are: Seilbek Urustemov '07, (Kyrgyz Republic), Jerson Posada Molina '06 (El Salvador), Leila Abou Nehme Sawaya '06 (Lebanon), Trang Truong '05 (Vietnam), Mussah Alemame Kamara '07 (Liberia). (November 2008)
Kamiljon T. Akramov, Uzbekistan, has joined the International Food Policy Research Institute after completing his Ph.D. He is working on development and governance issues pertinent to countires in South Asia, Africa and Central Asia. His son, Bekzod, is a first year student at Williams.
Gantuya (Gana) Badamgarav, Mongolia, writes that she is working for a USAID Project named Economic Policy Reform and Competitiveness. She also represented the CDE at a recent Education Fair (pictured in center), attended by hundreds of potential candidates. (October 2008)
Bheki Bhembe, Swaziland, writes,"I've attached a photo of our son, who was born on the 7th of February 2007. My apologies for sending this photo so late, I've been out of office for the past one and half months. Hlobi and I are so excited even though he is keeping us awake for the better part of our nights." (February 2007)
Otilia Frolu, Romania, sent an email with news. She reports "I'm still working for the Government Treasury, fully involved in curbing the public financing towards financial markets, and developing the local ones. I got involved in this immediately after I arrived, in fall 2004, and I can tell that the course that Tom taught had an immediate impact for me. We had IBRD and EIB issuing bonds on the local market, locally denominated, supplying the market alongside the Treasury. Still working on it, though."
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Dang Nhu Van (Camly),
Vietnam,
writes to say she is working on a PhD in Economics in Singapore. (July 2007)
Margarito (Gary) Teves, Philippines, came to Williams College to deliver a lecture, “Forging Economic Policy: A Finance Minister’s Perspective”. Mr. Teves was appointed Finance Secretary of the Philippines in 2005. Professor Jerry Caprio, chair of the CDE, introduced Secretary Teves. The audience of CDE students, undergrads, faculty and community members included CDE professors Roger Bolton, Henry Bruton, Doug Gollin, and John Sheahan, and long-standing CDE host family volunteer, Ginny Gaskill. Secretary Teves was accompanied by Rosalia de Leon (class of 1991). (October 2008)