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CONTRIBUTORS 215 and the University of Toledo in Ohio. He is currently a professor of eco- nomics at CERGE- EI. In addition to his teaching commitments, Kocˇenda is a member of the editorial board of the Czech Journal of Finance and Eco- nomics, a research affi liate of CEPR, and a research fellow of the William Davidson Institute. He has taught widely as a visiting scholar and contin- ues to hold leading and advisory roles on numerous economic and scien- tifi c boards and committees. Valentina Milella is a se nior researcher in the Privatization, Regulation and Corporate Governance research program at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in Milan. She is an economics graduate of the University of Turin, Italy. Milella has written several papers on privatization and is currently working as a researcher for the Understanding Privatization Policies Proj- ect funded by the Eu ro pe an Commission. She is also se nior analyst at Privatization Barometer ( www .privatizationbarometer .net) . John Nellis is a nonresident se nior fellow at the Center for Global De- velopment in Washington, D.C., and principal of the consulting/ research fi rm International Analytics. From 1984 to 2000 he worked at the World Bank, managing privatization assistance to client countries in Eastern Eu rope, Latin America, and Africa. Before joining the World Bank, Nellis was a university professor in Kenya, Canada, and the United States and an offi cial of the Ford Foundation in North Africa. Recent publications include a volume coedited with Nancy Birdsall, Re- ality Check: The Distributional Impact of Privatization in Developing Countries (2005); “Privatization: A Summary Assessment” (SAIS Review of International Affairs 27(2), Fall 2007); and “Leaps of Faith: Launch- ing the Privatization Pro cess in Transition” in Privatization in Transi- tion Economies (forthcoming in 2008). Gérard Roland joined the faculty at the University of California, Berke- ley, in 2001. He received his Ph.D. from Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1988 and taught there from 1988 to 2001. Roland is also a CEPR research fellow, where he was program director between 1995 and 2006. He serves as editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics and was an associate edi- tor of several other journals. Roland has been one of the leading researchers in the fi eld of transi- tion economics and wrote the only existing graduate textbook on the

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