| Education | |
| 1964-68 | University of Montreal (Loyola College) -- Bachelor of Arts (History) |
| 1968-70 | University of Oxford -- Master of Arts (Politics and Economics) |
| 1970-71 | University of Sussex -- Master of Arts (African Studies) |
| 1973-74 | London School of Economics -- Doctoral Research in Economics |
| 1998 | Harvard Business School -- Executive Development Program |
| Awards | |
| 1968-71 | Rhodes Scholarship for the Province of Quebec |
| 1973-74 | Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship |
| Positions Held | |
| 1971-75 | Policy Analyst, Department of Finance, Ottawa |
| 1975-76 | Senior Planning Officer, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Ottawa |
| 1976-78 | First Secretary (Development), Canadian High Commission, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| 1978-79 | Administrator, Development Assistance Committee, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, France |
| 1979-83 | Senior Loan Officer (Kenya and Tanzania), World Bank, Washington DC |
| 1983-85 | Senior Loan Officer (Indonesia), World Bank, Washington DC |
| 1985-87 | Chief Administrative Officer, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank, Washington DC |
| 1987-89 | Division Chief, Country Operations for Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific, World Bank, Washington DC |
| 1989-91 | Principal Adviser to the Senior Vice-President, External Affairs and Administration, World Bank, Washington DC |
| 1991-94 | Chief, World Bank Regional Mission in Western Africa, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire |
| 1994-96 | Deputy Secretary, Development Committee Task Force on the Future of the Multilateral Development Banks, Washington DC |
| 1996-97 | Senior Manager, Institutional Change and Strategy Department, World Bank, Washington DC |
| 1997-2000 | External Affairs Manager/World Bank Spokesman for Africa, Washington DC |
| 2000-2002 | Country Director for Central Africa (Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea), World Bank, Washington DC |
| 2002- | Economic Consultant and Writer, Montreal, Quebec |
| Publications | |
| August 2001 | Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa, co-edited with Deryke Belshaw and Chris Sugden (The World Bank, Washington DC, and Regnum Books International, Oxford) |
| March 2006 | The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn’t Working. St. Martin’s Press (Palgrave Macmillan): New York Yale University Press. London (July 2006 |
| May 2006 | "The World Bank: Paul Wolfowitz’s First Year" - New Statesman (UK). |
| June 2006 | "Africa: Better Off Without Us?" - New Statesman (UK). |
| August 2006 | L’Afrique peut-elle s’en sortir? Les Editions Fides (Montréal). |
| April 2007 | "Regime Change at the World Bank." Toronto Star (April 25). |
| June 2007 | "After Wolfowitz: What Next on Corruption?" Mail and Guardian (South Africa). |
| February 2008 | "High Time to Lose Patience in Kenya" |