Christopher Colford
Communications Officer
Christopher Colford was the Editor of the World Bank’s “Private Sector Development” blog from 2014 to 2017. After seven years as a Communications Officer at the World Bank, he joined the International Monetary Fund in the autumn of 2017. In the private sector, he had served as a consultant at Hill & Knowlton Public Affairs Worldwide and as a senior editor at McKinsey & Company. In government, he had served as a speechwriter – at federal financial regulatory agencies – in the Clinton Administration and in the Obama Administration.
Blogging on: Private Sector Development Blog, The Trade Post
- Productivity for prosperity: 'In the long run, it is almost everything'
- Toward a more durable form of globalization, beyond 'neoliberal' negligence
- ‘Smartest Places’ via smarter strategies: Sharpening competitiveness requires ingenuity, not inertia
- Olympic-sized ambition: Halt the Games' economic excess by building a permanent site for the Olympics — in Greece, their historic home
- Taxing ‘public bads’ and investing in ‘public goods’: Constructive tax policies can help prevent harm and help promote progress
- ‘Neoliberalism’ and its excesses: After a sudden cloudburst of controversy, clear IMF insights on the 'disquieting' drawbacks of free-market dogma
- 'Winning the Tax Wars': Mobilizing Public Revenue, Preventing Tax Evasion
- 'Making the case for trade': Winning voters’ trust by strengthening social safety nets
- 'Davos Every Day': Parliamentarians' ideas enrich the Spring Meetings debate, advancing the Good Governance agenda
- Vigorous ideas for ‘Powering Up Growth’ through energetic policy reforms
- Macro hype, micro hope: Optimists champion ‘Community-Led Development’
- Stalled productivity, stagnant economy: Chronic stress amid impaired growth
- Determined to deliver: Private-sector ingenuity boosts public-sector results, through executive 'delivery units'
- Climate of hope, amid a season of summitry: Anticipation builds for vital summits on sustainability and climate change
- Activist strategies to sharpen economies' competitive edge: When Bernanke & Company speaks, policymakers listen
- For success and sustainability, seek broad social ‘well-being’; Good governance promotes a ‘virtuous cycle’ of growth
- Olympic opportunity: Renew the ideal of the global Games – by restoring the Olympics to their historic home
- Halting the 'race to the bottom’ in corporate conduct: Governance reform, focus on ethics must repair the damage
- Financial risk, resilience and realism: ‘New Economic Thinking,’ amid ominous tremors from the eurozone
- Greek tragedy: 'Sleepwalking' toward an economic abyss, with eurozone fears pervading the Spring Meetings
- History in the making: 'Policy relevance' and long perspective, with the Spring Meetings starting a series of summits
- 'Mission-oriented' strategies to invest in innovation: Competitiveness via an enterprising public sector
- Piggybanks for plunder: Corrupt cash flows to Global Cities, requiring transparency and complete disclosure of assets
- Vulnerable yet invaluable: Protecting our patrimony by safeguarding art, artifacts, archaeology and assets
- Amid the rescue and recovery in Greece: Corruption-hunting – putting promises into practice
Blogging on: Private Sector Development Blog, The Trade Post