Nationality: Japan
Date of Birth: September 10, 1965
Sr. Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank, specialized in governance and public sector management issues, with focus on public expenditure management, fiscal issues, service delivery reforms, administrative, organizational and civil service reform issues, political economy.

Education

1997 Ph.D in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, US

 Areas of Concentration: Comparative Political Economy, International Political Economy, Latin American Political and Economic Development

 Dissertation: “An Island of Excellence: Petróleos de Venezuela and the Political Economy of Technocratic Agency Autonomy,” a study of conditions that underlie political autonomy of Venezuela’s largest state-owned enterprise within a highly politicized public administration. Based on 18 months of field research in Venezuela.

1991 MA in Political Science, University of Kansas (with honors), Lawrence, KS, US
 Areas of concentration: Comparative Politics, International Relations

1989 BA in Political Science, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Professional experience
Aug. 2006 Sr. Public Sector Specialist, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank. Manila, Philippines

2002-present Sr. Public Sector Specialist, Public Sector Group, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank, Brasilia, Brazil

Lending:
 Programmatic Fiscal Reform Loans II and IV (TTL)
 Minas Gerais Development Policy Loan (TTL)
 Design of Public Sector Management components in a variety of state and municipal projects in the social and urban sectors: Pernambuco Education, Ceara SWAP, Amazonas Regional Development, Teresina and Sao Luis Municipal (Team member)
 Colombia Public Financial Management Project Mid-term Review (Team member/public expenditure management)

AAA:
 Programmatic Quality of Federal Public Expenditures (TTL, ongoing)
 Human Resource Management and Sub-national Service Delivery in Brazil’s Social Sectors (TTL, ongoing)
 Brazil Avaliação: Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development (Co-TTL with Kathy Lindert, ongoing)
 Strengthening of Planning Capacity in the Municipality of São Paulo (TTL)  Mexico Institutional and Governance Review (TTL, ongoing)
 LCR Flagship Report: Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (Team member/Chapter co-author with Michael Walton, 2002-03)
 LCR Regional Report Citizens, Politicians and Providers: The Latin American Experience with Service Delivery Reform (Team member,2003-04)
 Conference: Politics of Service Delivery (Co-TTL with Ariel Fiszbein, 2005)  Nepal MTEF Review mission (Team member, 2004)

2001-02 Sr. Public Sector Specialist, Public Sector Group, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank, Washington, DC Lending:

 Brazil Programmatic Fiscal Reform I (TTL for SPN, 2001-02) AAA:  Peru Decentralization Study (TTL, 2002)

1999-01 Public Sector Specialist, Public Sector Group, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank, Washington, DC

AAA:
 Honduras Public Expenditure Review (TTL, rated highly satisfactory by the Quality Assurance Group, 2001)
 Brazil - Planning for Performance in the Federal Government: Review of Pluriannual Planning (TTL, 2001)
 Peru Institutional and Governance Review (TTL, 2001)

1998-99 Young Professional, Public Sector Group, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank, Washington, DC

AAA:
 Bolivia Institutional and Governance Review (TTL, rated best practice/highly satisfactory by the Quality Assurance Group), one of the first IGRs with systematic analysis of political economy and institutional roots of poor governance in Bolivia; provided a realistic assessment of reform options tailored to the country’s institutional realities

1997-98 Young Professional, Kenya Country Department, World Bank, Nairobi, Kenya
 Responsible for donor coordination on governance issues
 Co-author of the Country Assistance Strategy document

1996-97 Consultant, Human Development Department, World Bank, Washington, DC
 Responsible for development of a knowledge management thematic group on education system reform

Publications
2004  "State-Society Interactions as Sources of Persistence and Change in Inequality" in Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Breaking with History? David de Ferranti et al.(Co-authored with Michael Walton)

2001  “Reforma de la Gestión Financiera en América Latina: Una Perspectiva Institucional (Financial Management Reform in Latin America: An Institutional Perspective)” Reforma y Democracia, 23, (Co-authored with William Dorotinsky)