Ms. Mary Hallward-Driemeier is Deputy Director of the World Development Report. Since joining the World Bank's Research Department in 1997, she has worked on firm productivity, foreign direct investment, the Asian financial crisis and the impact of the investment climate on firm performance. She was a core member of the team which developed and mainstreamed investment climate surveys and has co-authored Investment Climate Assessments for India, China and Pakistan. Her research has been included in several books and journals including papers in the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series and the World Bank Research Observer. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. and an M.Sc. from Oxford University.