Board and Funders

BIC Board of Directors

Each board member is serving in his/her personal capacity.

• David Hunter (Chair), Director, International Legal Studies Program, American University Washington College of Law
• Jonathan Fox (Vice-Chair), Professor, American University School of International Service, Director, Accountability Research Center
• Amy Shannon (Treasurer), Senior Advisor, The National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC)
• David Kaimowitz, Director of Sustainable Development, Ford Foundation,
• Susanne Breitkopf, Policy Manager, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
• Joshua Lichtenstein, Program Manager, Rainforest Foundation US
• César Gamboa, Executive Director, Derecho Ambiente y Recursos Naturales

Strategic Plan

Since its founding in 1987, the Bank Information Center (BIC) has partnered with civil society in developing and transition countries – as well as the Global North – to influence the World Bank and other international financial institutions (IFIs) to promote social and economic justice and ecological sustainability. For the 2012-2015 period, BIC will pursue this mission with a primary institutional focus on the World Bank Group.

With the emergence in recent years of various international financial regulatory bodies as well as alternative sources of finance, the power and influence of the World Bank has been called into question. In the face of the global economic crisis sparked in 2008, the World Bank Group is likely to increase its power and finance for at least the next few years, particularly for aid-dependent countries and middle-income countries with high levels of debt. At the same time, the markets will shun goals, such as economic justice and ecological sustainability, if they are perceived as short-term costs rather than long-term benefits. Hence, the need for BIC’s mission and role as the premier go-to organization on the World Bank Group (WBG) is greater than ever.

Finances and Reports