Alnoor Ebrahim, author of the World Bank study, is Visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Wyss Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School, USA.

He is author of NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Forging Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). His articles on civil society accountability have appeared inter alia in Accountability Forum, Democracy & Society, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and World Development. He has also prepared several reports on civil society relations with multilateral development banks, including (with Steve Herz) ‘A Call for Participatory Decision Making: A Discussion Paper on World Bank-Civil Society Engagement’ (2005).