Craig Wilson, an economist, currently works for the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group. He has extensive economic policy and business experience in developing countries and is currently based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he is managing a program which seeks to improve investment climates in South Asia. He will shortly take up a new post as Executive Director of the Foundation for Development Cooperation, an independent development think tank based in Brisbane, Australia. He has worked for numerous international organizations and for five years from 2000 he consulted to the World Bank. Throughout the 1990s he served in the Australian diplomatic service. He has a BA in economics from Griffith University, and a master’s degree in economic policy from Columbia University. Along with Professor Emeritus George C. Lodge of Harvard Business School, he recently co-authored A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty published by Princeton University Press in March 2006.
