Speakers profiles:

Hideki Mori, Former Manager of Young Professional Program, The World Bank

Hideki Mori was born in Fukushima City, Fukushima. After studying Population Ecology at Tokyo University, he worked as a Geographic Information systems analyst/engineer of the Pacific Aero Survey Corporation (PASCO) in Tokyo. Hideki then studied in Washington, DC for his first master's degree. He passed the United Nation's competitive examination for under-representing countries in 1990, and accepted the assignment to Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile as Associate Economic Affairs Officer on Environmental and Human Settlements. In 1993, he joined the World Bank as a Young Professional, and since then worked in a number of countries in Latin America and Caribbean as well as Europe and Central Asia as Task Team Leader of social protection, education and health projects. From 2005 to 2007, the Bank placed Hideki to Kiev, Ukraine as Human Development Sector Coordinator for Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. Since late 2007 until recently, he was the manager of the Young Professionals Program and recruited a number of highly qualified young people, including several Japanese. In October 2009, the Bank appointed him as the manager of Rapid Social Response Program, a special program designed to support the strengthening of crisis response mechanisms of the poorest countries. Hideki holds a Master's of Arts International Development from the American University in Washington, DC and an MBA from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.



Jeannie Crist, Human Resources Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Jeannie Crist is a Human Resources Officer with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) focusing on global recruitment. Ms. Crist obtained her MBA from Columbia University in 2000 and was recruited by IFC through the Global Transaction Team (GTT) program, IFC’s recruitment channel for entry-level Investment Officers (IO). In her role as an IO, Ms. Crist worked on numerous transactions in the Telecom, Media, and Technology (TMT) sector and the Small & Medium Enterprise sphere.

In 2005, Ms. Crist moved into HR and has been involved in the recruitment of entry-level and mid-career investment and non-investment staff. Her primary role is to interface with IFC’s business to identify recruitment needs and source strong candidates. She has played a central role in standardizing the recruitment process across IFC as it decentralizes operations around the world.