Joel Hellman

Joel Hellman is the Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.^[1] He was formerly the World Bank's first Chief Institutional Economist.

Before becoming Chief Institutional Economist at the World Bank, he served as director of the World Bank’s Fragile and Conflict Affected States department, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He also played a critical role in the World Bank’s response to the devastating tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia. In addition to serving at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, he has taught as a faculty member in the political science departments of both Columbia University and Harvard University.

He holds a B.A. from Williams College, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University as well an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, St. Antony's College.

Publications

• "Seize the State, Seize the Day: An Empirical Analysis of State Capture and Corruption in Transition Economies," (with Geraint Jones and Daniel Kaufmann), Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 31, no. 4 (December 2003).
• "Confronting the Challenge of State Capture in Transition Economies," (with Daniel Kaufmann) Finance and Development, vol. 38, no. 3 (September 2001).
• "Review Essay: Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies," East European Constitutional Review, vol. 7, no. 3 (Summer 1998).
• "Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Post-Communist Transitions," World Politics, vol. 50, no. 2 (January 1998). Awarded the Sage Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Politics (1998 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting).
• "Constitutions and Economic Reform in the Post-communist Transitions," East European Constitutional Review, vol. 5, no. 1 (Winter 1996).
• "Russia Adjusts to Stability," Transition, vol. 2, no. 10 (May 1996).
• "Gorbachev's New World View," Social Policy, vol. 18, no.1 (Summer 1987).

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