Felix Zimmermann

Biography

Felix coordinates the OECD Global Forum on Development, a series of events in which policy makers and experts are grappling with the growing complexity of international development finance. In addition to managing the Forum’s events, Felix conducts research on related themes and has contributed chapters to the 2007 and 2008 volumes of Financing Development.

Since joining the Centre in 2003, Felix has moderated conference sessions and delivered presentations at government and research institutions in Paris, Hanoi, London, Bonn, Pavia, Brussels and Ottawa. Together with Ángel Alonso Arroba, he fosters the Centre’s relations with foundations and is seeking to engage public and private donors around the issue of supporting developing-countries think tanks. In 2006, he helped launch DeFiNe, a global network of think tanks working on development finance.

Felix studied in Sydney, Berlin and Brussels and holds a Masters degree in International and European Law. Prior to joining the Centre, he worked for a company promoting Australian-German relations, volunteered as a language teacher in Russia and carried out desktop studies for NGOs such as Transparency International and the Jesuit Refugee Services.

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> Curriculum vitae

OECD Development Centre Publications

> Financing Development 2008: Whose Ownership? (2008)
Chapter 1, with Ida McDonnell

> Financing Development: Aid and Beyond (2007)
co-authored Chapters 1, 5 and 6

> Facing Complexity in Development Finance: Challenges for a Donor Darling (2007)
Policy Insight No. 40, with Denis Drechsler

> New Actors in Health Financing: Implications for a Donor Darling (2006)
Policy Brief No. 33, with Denis Drechsler

> The International Aid System: A Question of Perspective (2005)

Policy Insight No. 13

Conference Reports

> Ownership in Practice, Informal Experts' Workshop, Sèvres, September 2007

> Performance and Coherence in Multilateral Development Finance, Berlin, January 2007

> Development Finance Architecture: What Flows, Channels and Pools?, July 2006

Other

> Making aid work for Africa (August 2007)
Letter, International Herald Tribune

> Millennium Development Goals and Aid Harmonisation: What's Next? (2005)
Euforic Newsletter, with Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte