Dan Honig on Mission Driven Bureaucrats

The Governance Global Practice Book Talks welcomes Dan Honig to discuss his book, Mission Driven Bureaucrats which explores how public servants are often motivated by a commitment to fulfill their agency's mission-whether it's educating children, improving healthcare, or ensuring efficient public services like transportation. Dan Honig is an associate professor of public policy at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and University College London.

• Arturo Herrera Gutierrez

  Global Director for Institutions in the Prosperity Vertical, World Bank Group, Governance

  Arturo Herrera is the Global Director for Institutions in the Prosperity Vertical, World Bank Group, Governance

  Mr. Herrera, a Mexican National, has extensive experience in governance, as a practitioner and from the development and academic perspectives. He joined the World Bank in 2010 as Senior Public Sector Management Specialist in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. He held various positions in the Bank including as Sector Manager in LAC, Practice Manager in Governance Global Practice for the LAC and East Asia and the Pacific regions in the Global Unit before leaving the World Bank Group in 2018.

  Between 2018 and 2021 he has held leadership positions in the Government of Mexico as Co-Head of the Finance Team in Presidential Transition Team, Deputy Finance Minister and, most recently, as Minister of Finance and Public Credit. He was also the Chairman of Mexico's Exchange Commission and Member of the Board of the Central Bank.

  As Global Director for Institutions, country-level governance, especially in fragile, conflict and violent settings; maximizing the effectiveness of operational support for public financial management and public procurement; fostering excellence in the Bank's Prosperity vertical work on public sector administration and operational support for legal and judicial reforms.

  Mr. Herrera has also taught Monetary and Banking and Macro and Micro Economics at both El Colegio de Mexico and New York University where he completed his doctoral studies in Economics.

• Dan Honig

  Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and University College London

  Dan Honig is an associate professor of public policy at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and University College London. His research focuses on the organizational bits of government's role in enhancing citizens' welfare - particularly management practice, organizational structure, and relations between citizens and the state.

• Chiara Bronchi

  Practice Manager for the Public Institutions Data and Analytics Unit in the Governance Global Practice

  Chiara Bronchi is the Practice Manager for the Public Institutions Data and Analytics Unit in the Governance Global Practice of the World Bank Group. She leads a group of public sector economists and political scientists, who are building an innovative analytical and quantitative approach for assessing public institutions for a sustainable and inclusive development.

  Chiara has over 28 years of professional experience in leading multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary programs gained in various international organizations. She started her professional career as Economic Adviser with the U.K. government, joined the OECD in 1998 as a Young Professional, and moved to the IMF in 2003. She served at the Head of the Fiscal Affairs Office of Kosovo under the UN Protectorate before joining the World Bank in 2008, where she led country operations, technical assistance, and analytical reports on fiscal and public sector policies. In 2018-19 she was on external assignment as the Chief Thematic Officer of the ADB, where she provided strategic directions for the ADB- Strategy- 2030 thematic areas.

  She has published on taxation and public spending. Most recently, she has co-authored an approach paper for the Conclave of Ministers of Finance on financing Human Capital Development. Chiara holds a PhD in economics from Bologna University and a MSc in economics from University College of London.