David Dollar, a US national, is the World Bank’s Country Director for China and Mongolia in the East Asia and Pacific Region, based in Beijing.Before this assignment, Mr. Dollar worked as Director for the development research department of the World Bank, overseeing the Bank’s research on the investment climate and growth. He co-authored the recent World Bank reports Globalization, Growth, and Poverty and Assessing Aid. His earlier work focused on aid and growth, and the determinants of the success and failure of reform programs supported by structural adjustment lending. He has been a key World Bank spokesperson on investment climate, globalization, and the effectiveness of aid. He has a PhD in economics from New York University and a B.A. in Chinese history and language from Dartmouth College.
