Speaker: Dr. Binyam Reja, Country Sector Coordinator and Lead Transport Specialist for the China and Mongolia Transport Program, World Bank Office in Beijing
Host: YIN Chengzhi, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Time: 14:00-16:00, May 15, 2014
Venue: Room 302, SPPM
Bio of Speaker:
Mr. Binyam Reja is the Country Sector Coordinator and Lead Transport Specialist for the China and Mongolia Transport Program at the World Bank Office in Beijing. Mr. Reja is responsible for coordinating the World Bank’s transport lending program for China, covering highways, railways, and urban transport projects, and for leading policy dialogue with client governments in central, provincial and local governments. Prior to moving to Beijing in August 2012, Mr. Reja was the Senior Transport Economist and Acting Sector Manager for the South Asia Region at the World Bank based in Washington, DC where he was responsible for managing several transport and urban transport sector projects and promoting high-level policy dialogue with client governments in the South Asia Region. He has worked extensively on transport financing reform, public private partnership projects, and public transport sector regulatory and institutional reforms. Mr. Reja has published several papers on public transport reforms and regulation, and is the co-author of Curb Rights: Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit, published by Brookings Institution in 1997. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, and attended the Executive Education program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
