WB names Baird RI director

WB names Baird RI director

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones): The World Bank Friday named Mark Baird
as its new country director for Indonesia as part of a wider
restructuring of senior management.

Baird replaces Dennis de Tray who is transferring to World
Bank headquarters in Washington this month.

A New Zealand national, Baird has been vice president of
strategic resource management at the bank since February 1997 and
has served previously on assignments in Indonesia and India.

World Bank President James Wolfensohn announced a host of
other new appointments in a statement, including that of Peter
Woicke as a managing director of the bank.

Woicke will take responsibility for "ensuring the coherence of
our private sector work across the bank group" and will retain
his current position as vice president of the International
Finance Corp.

Reporting to Woicke will be Nemat Shafik, who has been
appointed vice president of infrastructure and private sector
development while Manuel Conthe is to take on a new position as
vice president for financial operations, moving from his position
as chief economic counselor to the European Union in Brussels.

Just as the Brazilian crisis takes another twist the World
Bank's vice president for its Latin American and Caribbean
office, Shahid Javed Burki, is to retire after 25 years with the
bank and will be replaced by David de Ferranti, head of the World
Bank's human development network.