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Series - Managing director chronological files

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WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-36-03

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Managing director chronological files

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  • 1994 - 1997 (Creation)

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10.69 linear feet of textual records

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This series consists of chronological correspondence, memoranda, emails, and attachments from when Frank served as managing director and chairman, Private Sector Development (PSD) Group, 1995 to 1997, plus one folder of congratulatory messages to Frank beginning in November 1994 upon the news of his appointment.

Topics in this series include the overall PSD strategy across the Bank Group, in coordination with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA); PSD policy coordination within the Bank Group; Country Assistance Strategies that include Private Sector Strategies; support for "multi-institutional" projects that involve the World Bank, IFC, and MIGA; and lending to large countries and state-owned enterprises.

Among the Bank Group correspondents are senior officials such as President James D. Wolfensohn; MIGA Executive Director Akira Iida; IFC Executive Director Jannik Lindbaek; the Bank's executive directors; and Frank's fellow managing directors, particularly Gautam Kaji and Sven Sandstrom. External recipients include leaders of international businesses, business groups, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and development banks.

The series consists of two overlapping sets of correspondence. The chronological files contain mostly copies of Frank's outgoing general correspondence to internal and external recipients. Copies of correspondence to the President's Office are included in the chronological files and duplicated in a separate group of files in this series labeled "correspondence to the President's Office or signed by the President's Office." Similarly, one file of correspondence with Frank's fellow managing directors contains copies of items that may be duplicated in the chronological files.

Included in the series is one file of "Minutes of President's Meetings," which contains information about meetings in 1995 involving managing directors and regional and central vice presidents. Some are records of meetings held between February and May 1995, while President Lewis T. Preston was on leave and the Bank's managing directors took turns in the role of president-designate. Other minutes in this file relate to meetings led by President Wolfensohn from June to August 1995.

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Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Access to Information as well as the separate access to information policies of IFC and MIGA, either individually or collectively.

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  • See Records of the Private Sector Development Sector (WB IBRD/IDA WB_IBRD/IDA_100) for project and special studies files, reference and research files, and correspondence related to PSD while Frank was managing director.

  • See Records of the Finance and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency (WB IBRD/IDA WB_IBRD/IDA_102), which include budget and work program records related to PSD and its parent unit, FPDVP, from 1993 to 1997. Also see Records of the Finance, Private Sector Development, and Infrastructure Network (WB IBRD/IDA WB_IBRD/IDA_103), successor of FPDVP, for records related to PSD immediately following Frank's departure from the Bank in 1997.

  • Records of the Office of the President -- Records of President James D. Wolfensohn (WB IBRD/IDA EXC-13)

  • Records of General Vice Presidents and Managing Directors (WB IBRD/IDA MDS)

  • Records of individual staff members -- Gautam Kaji files -- Managing Director chronological files (WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-24)

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