News from CCO

• World Bank Executive Director, For Canada Visit

  Mr. Marcel Masse, The World Bank, Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and eleven Caribbean countries is visiting Bhutan from September 23, to October 04, 2006. On a twelve-day official visit Mr. Marcel Masse will be meeting senior government officials including ministers from Finance, Education, Home and Foreign affairs. He will also meet the secretary of the Royal Civil Service Commission and the Vice Chancellor of the Royal University of Bhutan. Mr. Marcel Masse has a B. Phil, in Economics from Oxford University, England and an honorary degree from the University of New Brunswick (UNB). In November 2002 he was appointed as the World Bank Executive Director for Canada. Mr. Masse has served at various capacities in leading organizations. He was the Inter American Development Bank, Executive Director for Canada, prior to his appointment as the World Bank Executive Director. He has been twice the President of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Earlier in his career he was the Deputy Minister of Finance and the Chairman of the Cabinet Secretariat, in the Province of New Brunswick. In addition to high-level meetings in the Kingdom, Mr. Masse will also visit the Canadian Cooperation Office and some of the UNB CIDA assisted projects, which are mainly in the Education sector. He will also visit the World Bank supported projects across the country. The World Bank has supported several projects in Bhutan in sectors like, Agriculture, Health and Education. A three-member team including, Mr. Alastair M. Kechnie, Country Director for Bhutan, Mr. Mark LaPrairie Education Specialist for South Asia and Ms. Jenifer Mekechnie from the World Bank are accompanying Mr. Masse.

  
  
  

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