Michel G. Maila

A dual citizen of Canada and Lebanon, Dr. Maila is a financial economist with extensive years of international banking and international finance experience in the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
He worked for the Bank of Montreal (BMO Financial Group) in Canada for 22 years.
His last two positions at BMO were as the senior officer in charge of market and operational risk, and Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Risk Management.
Prior to that, he was BMO�s Executive Vice President for Mexico and Latin America and earlier served as the senior credit officer and head of portfolio management for the corporate and investment banking group.
Before joining the Bank of Montreal, he had gained banking experience with American Express and Citibank in project and corporate finance in emerging markets as well as in trading and underwriting in international capital markets.
Dr. Maila has had wide-ranging business affiliations and associations.
He has served as President of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation, which organizes private and highly focused conferences of senior international experts to address issues of transatlantic and global interest.
For several years, he was a director on the board of the Mexico-based Grupo Financiero Bancomer, chair of the Senior Risk Management Committee of the Canadian Bankers Association, and a member of the Canadian Advisory Board of U.S.-based Factory Mutual Global Insurance.
Before joining the World Bank Group in September 2006, he was Executive-in-Residence at the Schulich School of Business of York University in Toronto and had been lecturing and consulting in the area of risk management and international finance.
Dr. Maila holds an MBA in Economics and Finance from the American University of Beirut.
He earned another MBA degree in International Business and his Ph.D.
in International Finance from the University of Chicago.
He has published a number of papers on project finance and exchange rate risk.