World Bank Appoints New Country Director for the New European Union Member States and Croatia

Contact: Alexandra Caracoti
Phone: 40-21-2010324
E-mail: acaracoti@worldbank.org

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 Orsalia Kalantzopoulos

Bucharest, December 21, 2007 – Effective January 1, 2008, Ms. Orsalia Kalantzopoulos will take up her new post as Country Director of a newly established Country Unit covering the following countries: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia. Under Ms. Kalantzopoulos’ leadership this new Country Unit will support a mix of active middle income countries and those that have financially graduated and are emerging as donor countries. Among Ms. Kalantzopoulos’ main responsibilities will be to facilitate knowledge sharing, innovation and synergies across the World Bank’s programs for the new EU member states and Croatia, as well as to assist the World Bank’s partner countries achieve convergence with the EU and full integration with the global economy.

Ms. Kalantzopoulos is a Greek national, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recently held position in the World Bank has been that of Country Director and Regional Coordinator for the Southeast Europe Country Unit. Ms. Kalantzopoulos will be stationed at the World Bank’s Headquarters in Washington D.C.

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