Jean-Michel Severino 

The management of international development has been the dominant part of Mr. Jean-Michel Severino’s career. General Inspector of Finances, French Ministry of Finances. Former Vice-President of the World Bank for Asia, former Director General of the Agence Française de Développement From 2001 to 2009, Jean-Michel Severino was the Director General of France’s International Development Agency, AFD. After graduating from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, he started his career as Inspector of finances in the French administration. He was previously director in charge of international development at the French Ministry of cooperation. At the World Bank, he served as director for Central Europe and then as Vice President for Asia. In October 2007 he launched the blog Ideas4development alongside Josette Sheeran, Donald Kaberuka, Kemal Dervis, Pascal Lamy, Abdou Diouf and Supachai Panitchpakdi, in which the authors share their visions, doubts and hopes for international development