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Jean-Michel Severino
Managing Director of French Agency for Development and Cooperation
Jean-Michel Severino is the Managing Director of France’s international development agency - the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). He was appointed in 2001 for a three-year term, renewed in 2004 and 2007. Born in 1957, he held prior functions as Director in charge of international development at the French Ministry of Cooperation, then as Director for Eastern Europe and Vice President for Asia at the World Bank. Mr. Severino regularly publishes articles in the French and international press. He contributes to the blog www.ideas4development.org alongside Josette Sheeran, Kemal Dervis, Nemat Shafik, Achim Steiner, Pascal Lamy, Abdou Diouf, Supachai Panitchpakdi and Donald Kaberuka, in which the authors share their visions, ideas, doubts and hopes for international development.