KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun wished newly appointed World Bank’s Country Director for Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, David Sislen, a pleasant tenure at a reception event organized on his arrival to Nepal. He also expressed his confidence that Sislen's tenure would be successful in the continuation of the efforts started during the term of the outgoing country director Faris Hadad-Zervos and for further cooperation as well.

Finance Minister Pun said that he was happy to welcome Sislen on the eve of the World Bank Group's International Development Organization (IDA-21) meeting in Nepal starting from Tuesday. He mentioned that the relationship between Nepal and the World Bank reached new heights during the tenure of the outgoing Country Director Zervos.

Prior to this position, Sislen was the Practice Manager for Urban and Disaster Risk Management for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank.

He holds Master’s degrees in Economics and Geography from Johns Hopkins University and Macalester College (USA) and has worked extensively on issues of infrastructure, urban development, and decentralized service delivery in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and East Asia and the Pacific. -- RSS