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Francisco Sagasti is the director of the AGENDA: Perú program of activities at FORO Nacional/Internacional, an institution created to promote democratic governance and to foster dialogue and consensus on critical development issues. In addition to holding various academic, private-sector, and government-advisory positions in Peru and in other countries, he has been Chief of Strategic Planning and senior advisor at the World Bank; visiting professor at the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania; and chair of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and engineering degrees from the National Engineering University in Lima, Peru. Dr Sagasti is the author or editor of 18 books and monographs, the latest of which are The Uncertain Quest: Science, Technology and Development (with Celine Sachs and Jean-Jacques Salomon) (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1993); Democracy and Good Government (with Pepi Patrón, Nicolás Lynch, and Max Hernández) (Lima: Apoyo–AGENDA: Perú, 1995); and Preventing Deadly Conflict: Does the World Bank Have a Role? (with John Stremlau) (New York: Carnegie Commission for the Prevention of Deadly Conflict, 1998). He is also the author of 150 academic papers and contributes frequently to newspapers and magazines in Lima, Peru.

Gonzalo Alcalde is a research associate at FORO Nacional/Internacional and has been involved in the AGENDA: Perú program of activities since 1995. He has also been an assistant analyst at Peru’s Ministry of Economics and Finance. Mr Alcalde holds an MA from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky and has contributed to FORO Nacional/Internacional–AGENDA: Perú publications on social policy, poverty, and international cooperation.

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