# **Acknowledgments**

Employing Skilled Expatriates (ESE) is part of the FDI Regulations database of the Global Indicators and Analysis Department (GIA) of the World Bank Group (WBG). The lead author, Dieter De Smet, is a Private Sector Development Specialist working in GIA.

The author is grateful for valuable peer review comments received from World Bank Group colleagues Pierre Guislain, Christine Qiang, Roberto Echandi, Peter Kusek, Harald Jedlicka, David Robalino, Arvo Kuddo and Dilip Ratha. External peer reviewers include Julia Onslow-Cole and James Perrott at the global immigration network of PwC Legal LLP, Ayelet Shachar, at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and Madeleine Sumption, at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Additional valuable comments were received on earlier drafts of the paper from Carolin Geginat, Melissa Johns, Augusto Lopez-Claros, Tanya Primiani, Federica Saliola, and Hulya Ulku from GIA.

Two groups of people provided pro-bono contributions to ESE without which the data and indicators could not have been gathered and developed.

The first is the group of lawyers and government regulators in each of the 93 economies covered by the report who responded to the ESE legal questionnaire. Their input about the skilled immigration regime in their economy was the fundamental source of data for the analysis. Grateful acknowledgment of these contributors is made in the Contributors section at the end of this report. Additional details about the contributors across all topics of the FDI Regulations database are provided at <u>http://iab.worldbank.org/Local-Partners/2012. Particular acknowledgment is made to the Global</u> Immigration Network of PwC Legal, which responded to questionnaires in more than 60 economies.

The second is the expert consultative group formed to provide technical input to the development of the ESE topic. This group of global immigration experts provided input on the focus of the ESE legal questionnaire and on the methodology to develop the ESE indicators. Members of the expert consultative group include:

- Dr. Lucie Cerna, Assistant Professor in Global Challenges, Leiden University, Netherlands and Research Associate at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford.

- John Craig, Partner, Heenan Blaikie Law Firm, Canada.

- Harald Jedlicka, Investment Policy Officer, WBG Investment Climate, Vienna, Austria.

- Graeme Kirk, Senior Partner, Gross & Co. Law Firm, Washington DC.

- Khalid Koser, Deputy Director and Academic Dean at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland.

- Susan Martin, Herzberg Professor of International Migration Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

- Julia Onslow-Cole, Partner and head of global immigration network of PwC Legal LLP.

- Linda Rahal, Partner, Trow & Rahal Immigration Law Firm.

- Ted Ruthizer, Partner and Co-Chair of the Business Immigration group of Law Firm Kramer Levin, New York.

- Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law, Political Science & Global Affairs, Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Canada.

- Elizabeth Stern, managing partner and head of the Global Immigration & Mobility Practice Group, Baker & McKenzie, Washington DC.

- Madeleine Sumption, Senior Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute Washington DC.

- Hong Tran, Partner Mayer Brown, Hong Kong SAR, China.

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