Issue 7 - Should tourism be promoted in developing countries?

Issue 7 - Should tourism be promoted in developing countries?

Jonathan Mitchell

Jonathan Mitchell is a local and regional economic development specialist with long-term experience in Sub-Saharan Africa and increasing exposure in South-East Asia. His focus is value-chain development, local economic development, economic and financial analyses, and tourism and agriculture. He has worked for a range of multilateral and bilateral donor organisations and currently heads the Protected Livelihoods and Agricultural Growth Programme at the London-based development policy ‘think tank’, the Overseas Development Institute. >>Download Jonathan Mitchell's paper

Kirk Hamilton

Kirk Hamiltonis Lead Economist in the World Bank Development Economics Research Group and co-author of World Development Report 2010 Development and Climate Change. He leads research on links between poverty and environment, ‘greening’ the national accounts, and the economics of climate change. Prior to joining the Bank he served as Assistant Director of National Accounts for the government of Canada, where his responsibilities included developing an environmental national accounting program. >>Download Kirk Hamilton and Jean-Michel Pavy's paper
 

Jean-Michel Pavy

Jean-Michel Pavy has worked at the World Bank Africa Region in the environment sector for the past 15 years. In Cote d'Ivoire and Mozambique he helped with national policy and institutional reform of wildlife and protected area management. Since he moved to Zambia in 2004, Jean-Michel's interest has moved to tourism as an engine of growth that also contributes to conservation and requires well managed nature products. Prior to the World Bank, Jean-Michel studied conservation biology as well as environmental and water resources engineering at the University of Maryland. >>Download Kirk Hamilton and Jean-Michel Pavy's paper

Mondher Sahli

Mondher Sahli is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He previously lectured in Australia, France and Tunisia. He has also held a position as Director of Strategy at Tunisair and currently chairs the Secretariat of the International Association for Tourism Economics. He conducts expert missions and is an advisor to various organizations. >>Download Mondher Sahli and Jean-Jacques Nowak's paper

Jean-Jacques Nowak

Jean-Jacques Nowak is a Senior Lecturer in Economic Science at Université de Lille I (France) and a member of the research laboratory EQUIPPE. He also manages the “Economics and International Management” Master’s. He is a member of the International Association for Tourism Economics. As a specialist in international tourism economics, he is commissioned to work as a consultant by national and international organizations. >>Download Mondher Sahli and Jean-Jacques Nowak's paper

Mahmud Janmohamed

Mahmud Janmohamed is MD of Serena Hotels Africa and head of the tourism department of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), where he is responsible for 32 hotels, lodges and safari resorts located in nine countries in Africa and Asia. He is the founding chairman of the Kenya Tourism Federation, a trustee of the East African Wildlife Society, a director on the Corporate Governance Board East Africa, a board member on the Eastern Africa Association and Kenya Land Conservation Trust, and a member of the Executive Committee of AKFED. >>Download Mahmud Janmohamed' s paper

Carolyn L. Cain

Carolyn Cain is a Principal Tourism Specialist with the IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Carolyn provides industry expertise and analysis throughout the project investment cycle including establishing the strategy for hotel investments, business development, screening and appraising hotel investments and portfolio work. Ms. Cain received a BA from Vassar College in New York and a MBA from the University of Hawaii.  She has been with IFC for 16 years. >>Download Carolyn Cain and Anastasia Gekis's paper 

 

Anastasia Gekis

Anastasia Gekis is a Senior Strategy Officer with the IFC. Anastasia supports the development of strategy in the manufacturing and services sectors and works on investments in the tourism and retail sectors.  Anastasia has an MSc from the University of London and an MA from the University of Sussex.  She has been with IFC for 7 years. >>Download Carolyn Cain and Anastasia Gekis's paper

Agnès Weil

Agnès Weil graduated from the Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance (ENSAE) and holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD). She began her career at Bossard Consultants and went on to work at Gemini Consulting and VVF Vacances. In 1999, she joined Club Méditerranée as Quality, Safety and Hygiene-Health Director, before being appointed as Sustainable Development Director in 2005. >>Download Agnès Weil and Grégory Lanter's paper

Grégory Lanter

Gregory Lanter graduated from the Paris HEC Business School and joined Club Méditerranée in 2004 as Regional Development Director. After having restructured the Club’s assets in Senegal and Morocco, and set up villages in the Middle East and on Mauritius Island, he became Development Director in 2009. Since then, he has been contributing to the Club’s strategy to go high-end by refurbishing existing villages – the case in Sicily and Morocco – and launching new villages in France and China. >>Download Agnès Weil and Grégory Lanter's paper

Denis Sireyjol

Denis Sireyjol graduated from the ESSEC international business school, ENSEEIHT engineering school and holds a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence. He has been working for Agence française de développement (AFD) since 2007. He was previously an investment officer at Allied Irish Banks in Paris in 2005 and 2006. He subsequently spent two years in Madagascar for AFD where he was in charge of private sector financing. He joined Proparco in 2009 as an investment officer in the “Corporate” team, which works in the sectors of agribusiness, construction, services, health and education – without forgetting tourism. >>Download Denis Sireyjol's paper