Archive for August, 2008

Treasury Specialist (Professional Staff) (Asian Development Bank)

Monitor and contribute in taking advantage of funding opportunities in various capital markets with particular focus on major currency bond markets in line with ADB’s annual borrowing program to optimize resources. Formulate funding strategy and execute individual borrowings, including public offerings, structured private placements, and retail-targeted transactions.

Treasury Specialist (Professional Staff) (Asian Development Bank)

Monitor and contribute in taking advantage of funding opportunities in various capital markets with particular focus on local currency bond markets in line with ADB’s annual borrowing program to optimize resources. Formulate funding strategy and execute individual borrowings, including public offerings, structured private placements, retail-targeted transactions.

Senior Country Specialist (Professional Staff) (Asian Development Bank)

Lead, contribute and provide support for the formulation of the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS), Country Operations Business Plan (COBP) and mid-term progress review and subsequent implementation in line with the development plans of the Pacific developing member countries (PDMCs) covered by SPSO (Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu) and ADB’s medium and long-term strategic frameworks. Undertake donor coordination activities and regional/subregional activities for PDMCs.

Principal Evaluation Specialist (Professional Staff) (Asian Development Bank)

Oversee the conduct of evaluation studies, particularly more complex evaluations at corporate, country and sector levels, with focus on ADB’s Strategy 2020 related sector/subsector level assistance program evaluations. Draw lessons from evaluation studies and their implications for improving development effectiveness of ADB operations.

[Germany] PhD Scholarships Asymmetries in Cultural Information Flows – University of Heidelberg

The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at the University of Heidelberg is offering;

2 PhD scholarships within the Junior Research Group “Asymmetries in Cultural Information Flows: Europe and South Asia in the Global Information Network since the Nineteenth Century”.

The PhD students will be expected to develop a PhD project with the Junior Research Group’s research focus. The research group primarily examines how the emergence of a global telecommunication network in the late nineteenth century altered information flow patterns between South Asia and Europe and transformed action and event horizons on both sides of the communication process.

The PhD students will work within the framework of these subprojects:

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