Paris

Patrice Dufour-Le Chateiler, Development Training Services

Patrice Dufour is an independent consultant specialising in capacity building, public sector management and private sector development.
He brings more than 25 years of experience of working with governments and enterprises in developing and transition economies.

Born in September 1949 in France, Dufour is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies and the Graduate School for City and Regional Planning from the same institution. After one year working on urban Finance in the Paris area, he continued his education at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, where he received his MBA in 1974.

Following a year as a consultant at the French Institute for Public Management (CESMAP), he joined the World Bank through the Young Professionals Program. During his first missions for the World Bank, he worked on a number of projects in urban and rural finance on the Indian sub-continent. He then spent seven years working on small & medium enterprise development in West Africa, travelling extensively to a number of countries (Mali, Niger, Senegal, the Gambia, Mauritania, Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, etc.)

Seconded by the World Bank to Togo in 1983, Dufour served as Senior Economic Adviser to the Minister of Planning and Industry. His responsibilities included: the design and follow-up of economic reforms; the implementation of economic monitoring instruments; the country’s dialogue with donors; and the review of industrial restructuring projects.

Returning to Washington in 1986, he spent two years working for the Economic Development Institute, the training facility where the World Bank shares its economic and sector expertise with senior staff from developing and transition economies. Bank restructuring, public enterprise reform and privatisation were among the topics he covered.

This was followed by two years in the Resource Mobilization Department – responsible for replenishing the funds for the International Development Association (IDA) – introduced him to the difficult task of garnering the contributions that IDA needed to continue providing concessional credits to low-income countries. He returned briefly to work in Africa as country officer, before taking up a position as Senior External Affairs Counsellor at the World Bank European Office in Paris, in late 1990.

In early 1997, Dufour was appointed to the World Bank Resident Mission in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). As Senior Adviser for operations and information, he worked on the reconstruction program put in place after the Dayton-Paris peace accord. In late 1998, he came back to Paris and resumed his duties as Senior Counsellor until the end of 1999.

He then left the World Bank to start an independent career as a lecturer and consultant, specialized in capacity building, public sector management and private sector development.

Dufour is married and the father of four children. He has taught many seminars at various universities and institutes, including the University of Pittsburgh (GSPIA), the Maastricht School of Management, the International Law Institute, the Paris Institute of Political Sciences, the Sorbonne University and the International Institute of Public Administration.

Development Training Services
82, route de Croissy
78110 Le Vésinet
France

Tel: +33-1-30 15 19 64
Fax: +33-1-30 15 19 64
Mobile: +33-6-82 55 58 14

pdufour@worldbank.org