Lead CSR
Specialist
World Bank Group
Dr.
Djordjija Petkoski was Lead Specialist at the World Bank and the head of the
Business, Competitiveness and Development team at the WBI until April 2011. He
is currently consultant/adviser to the World Bank and a Senior Fellow at
the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, the Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania. Since joining the World Bank in 1992, Dr. Petkoski has focused
on business and development issues, competitiveness and sustainable development,
anti-corruption, governance, corporate responsibility, climate change, ethics,
leadership and leading change, with work experience in Asia, Latin America, the
Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
He has managed over 340
projects; lead the design, delivery, and lectured at over 20 executive
development programs; and engaged with over 100 leading companies
worldwide.
Dr. Petkoski co-teaches two courses on Corporate Responsibility and Ethics at Wharton. He has delivered around 200 lectures at leading universities, international conferences and organizations around the world.
He has published
extensively on issues of strategic management of complex technical, economic
and social systems. He is author or co-author of 15 books and over 180 articles
and reports.
Dr. Petkoski was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the early 1990's and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979-80. He received his Master's degree in Public Administration at Kennedy School of Governance, Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Zagreb, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade
