Announcement of Bank Mission to Peru on March 13, 1965

~ HOLD· FOR RELEASE. D • ~ IN 1818 H STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON D. C. 20433 TELEPHONE: EXECUTIVE 3-6360 Bank Press Release SUBJECT: Bank mission to Peru For release AM newspapers March 13, 1965 The World Bank is sending a mission to Peru to study the Government's economic development,\progr-arn and policies• The mission is µeaded by Mr. Hubert Havl:ik, Program Adviser to the Director of the Bank's Western Hemisphere Department. The team includes economists and advisers on public investments and finance, transport including highways and ports, electric power, agricUlture and irrigation, industry, housing, education and public health. The United Nations, the Food and Agri- culture Organization and Unesco are cooperating with the Bank in the mission • by providing advisers in housing, agriculture arxl education. Of the 19 mis- sion members, 11 are from the Bank's staff. The mission will arrive in Lima on Sunday, March 14, and is expected to remain in Peru for about seven weeks. Mr. Havlik, who will head the mission, joined the Bank in 1954 which he has served in ,different capacities. His assignment before his present position in the organization was as head of the Resident Mission to Chile• Earlier in his career Mr. Havlik served in the United States Government, in the European office of the Marshall Plan as representative on the Managing Board of the European. Payments Union. He also served in the State Department and in the Foreign Economic Administra~ion. Before joining the United States ·Government in 1944, Mr. Havlik taught economics at Columbia U~versity in New Yorke ~,, •  \\ I\ \\ • - 2 - \\ The other members ,of the mission are: Mr. Paul Craig-Marti?: (Un~ted Kingdom), General Adviser to the mission:~ Mr., Craig-Martin is ,the Bank's Resident Representative :Ln Peru; Mr. H. Michael Sapir (United States)., Investment PrograrnAdviser., of tqe Bank's Western Hemisphere Department; Mr. Hans Wyss (Switzerland), Chief Economist, of the Bank's Western;Hemisphere Department; Mrc Oktay Yenal (Turkey)., Public Finance Economist, of, phe Bank's Economic Department; Mr. Alberto J • Favilla (Argentina), General Economist, s;t;,aff membar; Mr. Sei-Young Park (Korea), •rransportation Economist, of the Bank's Projects Department; Mr111 Sigurd Heien (Norway), Port Adviser, of the Bank rs Projects Department; -~1'!'. Alf Be:r:_gan (Norway), Highway Adviser., of the Bank rs P-.coje.cts Department; Mr e Michel Palein (France),,. Transport Economist, staff member; Mr. R. Vaughan Sear (United States), Power • Adviser, of the Bank's Projects Department; Mr. Robert E. Van Geuns (United States), Industry and Private Investment Adviser, Special Consultant; Mr. M. LeBosquet (United States), Water Supply and Sanitation Adviser, of the United States Public Health Service; Mr. Mullath Vasudevan (India), Education Adviser, of Unesco; Mr. Nathan Gil (Israel), Agricultural Production Expert, of F.A.o.; Mr. K.E. Snelson (United Kingdom), Irrigation Adviser, of F.A.o.; Mr. Walter E. Chryst (United States), Agricultural Economist, of the United States Department of Agriculture; .Mro Carlos L. ~cevedo (Guatemala), Housing Adviser, of the United Nations; and Mr. Gerald Desmond (United States), Housing Economist, of the United Nationso •