Carlos Santiso

Dr.

African Development Bank, Governance Division, BP 87 Tunis 1002, Tunisie

Courriel : csantiso ( @ ) hotmail.com

Langues de contact : français, anglais, espagnol

Organisme : Groupe Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD)

Carlos Santiso is Sector Manager of the Governance Division at the African Development Bank, based in Tunis since 2007. He previously served as a governance and public finance advisor to the United Kingdom Department for International Development (2002-2007), a senior programme officer at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (1996-2000), as well as an adviser at the the French Prime Minister’s Office (1995-96). He has worked in over a dozen countries in Africa and Latin America for as many organizations in different capacities, including as a consultant. A graduate from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University, he has written extensively on democracy, governance and aid.

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Expériences professionnelles

African Development Bank (ADB) Tunis, Tunisia, June 2007 – present

Sector Manager and Head of Division, Governance Division, Manage the Bank’s governance division and portfolio in a newly-established operational department (2006).
Department for International Development (DFID) Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 2005 – June 2007

Governance and Public Finance Management Adviser - Financial Accountability and Anticorruption Unit, Global Development Effectiveness Division, Advised on aid effectiveness, budget support, use of country systems, public financial management and fiduciary risk.
Department for International Development (DFID) Lima, Peru, September 2002 – March 2005

Governance Adviser and Deputy Head of Office, Managed the governance portfolio of the country programme in Peru, contributed to the regional programme in Latin America and co-supervised the closure of the bilateral aid programme.
Consulting, policy advice and applied research
- Provided consulting services, delivered policy advise, and conducted analytical work and peer review for various multilateral institutions (UN DPA, WB PREM, IDB RE3 and SDC, UNDP, IDEA, EC Europe Aid, OECD DAC & GOV, OAS), bilateral aid agencies (CIDA, AECI), policy think tanks (CIPPEC, IIG, CMI, HCCI) and civil society organisations (TI, OSI, IBP, CAD, CGD); and undertook visiting fellowships in Chile’s General Audit Office (2004), Argentina’s Anticorruption Office (2003) and an Argentine policy think tank (CIPPEC 2005).
- Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal on Governmental Financial Management (from 2009) and Public Administration and Development (2005-2008).
- Published one book and over two dozen working papers, journal articles, book chapters; contributed to numerous research projects and delivered presentations in international conferences on aid, governance and democracy.

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Formations

PhD in comparative political economy (2006) Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, United States (2000-2006), defended in October 2006 and conferred in April 2007. Dissertation on Auditing for Accountability: Political Economy of Budget Oversight and Government Auditing in Emerging Markets.
Master in International Affairs (1995) with a concentration in International Economic Policy, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, New York, United States (1993-1995) and Certificate of European Studies (1995), Columbia University, Institute on Western Europe, New York, United States (1993-95).
Master in Political Science (1993), Institute of Political Studies of Paris, Paris, France (1990-1993).

Various training courses on public policy, aid management, governance and anticorruption, inter alia Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (1998) and International Institute of Public Administration (1999), Latin-American Centre for Development Administration (2002), Department for International Development (2003,2004, 2006), Norwegian Foreign Service Institute (2003), Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (2007), UK National School on Government (2007), aid instruments (2009), public financial management (2009), and PEFA (2007, 2008, 2009).

Compétences

Public sector governance – domestic accountability; political economy of reform; governance reform and institutional development; anticorruption and integrity systems; governance assessments and indicators; sector governance and anticorruption;
Financial governance - public finance management, public budgeting and fiscal institutions; oversight institutions and checks and balances; legislative budgeting and external auditing; revenue management, taxation and accountability; extractive industries governance ad natural resource management;
Political governance - politics, political analysis, democracy, elections, and democracy promotion; bilateral and multilateral aid policies in democracy, governance and anticorruption;
Aid governance and effectiveness - aid instruments and aid effectiveness (Paris and Accra agendas); financing for development; multilateral development finance; bilateral and multilateral aid policies, conditionality and selectivity; results frameworks; aid instruments, budget support and fiduciary risk; WB, ADB, IDB, EC-EU; mainstreaming governance in country and sector strategies;
Strong analytical skills, conceptual, research and writing skills; ability to grasp the big picture and new ideas; ability to contribute to strategy development, monitoring and evaluation, and to translate policies and strategies in operational programmes and costed work-plans; ability to analyze, synthesize and present material from diverse range of sources; effective communication and networking skills in English, French and Spanish; solid independent and team working and networking capacities; proven managerial skills of task teams and medium teams; field experience (Argentina, Benin, Brazil, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Chile, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Liberia, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Peru, South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda).

Publications récentes

‘The Political Economy of Governance and Conditionality in Multilateral Development Finance,’ International Public Management Journal 7(1): 73-100.
‘Eyes Wide Shut? Reforming and defusing checks and balances in Argentina’, Public Administration and Development 28(1), 67-84, 2008.
‘Banking on Accountability? Strengthening budget oversight and public sector auditing in emerging economies’, Journal of Public Budgeting and Finance 6(2), 66-100, 2006.

Ouvrages récents

Political Economy of Government Auditing: Financial Governance and Rule of Law in Latin America and Beyond (London: Routledge, May 2009). Reviewed in Finance & Development (IMF), Development Outreach (WB), International Journal on Government Financial Management (ICGFM).