2013 PSLO Water & Sanitation Mission Profile Booklet - Greater ...

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Oscar Alvarado, Senior Water & Sanitation Specialist, Latin America and Caribbean Region,
World Bank Group
Mr. Alvarado is a Senior Water & Sanitation Specialist at the Water & Sanitation
Unit of the Latin America & Caribbean Regional Vice Presidency of the World
Bank. He has worked in the World Bank for 18 years, including two years at the
resident mission in Bogota – Colombia. He has experience in several regions, particularly
in Latin America and South Asia, in water and sanitation and urban/
municipal development related projects. Most of his experience is in integrated
water management in urban areas, water and sanitation utilities, water supply
and sanitation in rural areas, and urban decentralization.
Prior to joining the Bank, he worked as a consultant, both in a water/hydraulics and sanitation
firm and as partner/owner of a consulting firm specialized in infrastructure and institutional development
at the urban level. Also, for nine years, he held several positions, mostly as operations
Division Manager in a Colombian Development Bank, focusing mostly on financing infrastructure
projects at subnational government level.
Mr. Alvarado holds a Civil Engineer degree with specialization in structural and seismic engineering.
Mr. Theis first worked at the World Bank from 1990 – 1999, when he was Chief of the Bank’s
News Bureau. Theis also served as a media information officer and, in Spring 1996, as press liaison
in the Bank’s Sarajevo, Bosnia office, soon after the signing of the Dayton peace accords.
Caroline van den Berg, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, Middle East & North Africa Region,
World Bank
Caroline van den Berg is an economist working on water issues in the World
Bank. Her expertise extends from providing policy advice, undertaking applied
research to the design and implementation of investment loans. She has undertaken
work in a wide variety of water issues such as the formulation of water
sector strategies, tariff modeling, demand assessment, financial analysis of utilities,
cost benefit analysis, regulation, and private sector participation especially
with an emphasis on the impacts of PSP on the poor and fiscal impact analysis.
She has a particular interest in monitoring and evaluation, especially with regard
to performance assessment, utility benchmarking, and impact evaluation. She
has worked in more than 30 countries all over the world. She holds a Master’s Degree in Economics
and a PhD degree in Spatial Sciences.
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