Gregory Ellis
Senior Operations Officer, Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group, World Bank
Focus: Containing Patronage Pressures, Civil Service
Keywords: Solomon Islands, budgeting, capacity building, decentralization, depoliticization, donor relations, managing diversity, merit pay, patronage, pay reform, performance management, promotion, recruitment, reform sequencing, technical assistance, training
Interviewer(s): David Hausman
Country of Reform: Solomon Islands
Location: World Bank, Washington, D.C., United States
Date: Mon Jul 20 2009
Abstract
Full Profile
At the time of this interview, Gregory Ellis had been a senior operations officer at the Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group at the World Bank for about a year. His parent organization was the Australian Agency for International Development. He was posted by AusAID in the Solomon Islands between 2005 and 2007, as deputy program manager for the Machinery of Government Program, part of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. Prior to that, between 2000 and 2002 he held a posting in Timor-Leste after the withdrawal of Indonesian forces.
