Bio
Arntraud Hartmann is Steven Muller Professor at SAIS Europe
Arntraud Hartmann is a Panel Member of the Independent Accountability Mechanism (IAM) of the German, French and Dutch Development Banks (DEG, PROPARCO and FMO). She was formerly a member of the Independent Accountability Panels of the Asian and African Development Banks. These mechanisms investigate complaints from people harmed by development projects funded by the respective Development Finance Institution. She regularly heads reviews of IAMs of different multilateral institutions. Hartmann spent 23 years of her professional career with the World Bank, which she joined in 1981 as a Young Professional. Between 1981 and 2004 she held numerous positions at the World Bank, including ten years in Senior Management Positions, such as Director for Southeast European Countries and Advisor to the Managing Director. She also established and headed the first World Bank Office in Romania (1991-1996) established after the Romanian revolution. Hartmann also worked with the IFAD Quality Assurance Department, was a Research Fellow with the UNICEF Innocenti Center (1996-97) and was Senior Advisor to the World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization (2002-2004).
Since 1997, Hartmann has taught courses in development policy and development economics at SAIS Europe. She obtained the Excellence of Teaching Award in 2014, 2019 and 2020. She also was Visiting Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany.
Hartmann holds degrees in laws and economics from Hamburg University and American University, Washington, DC, as well as diplomas in development policy and finance from the German Development Institute, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University.
Courses
- Development Finance and the Sustainable Development Goals
The Course is an overview course on key thematic challenges on the Development Agenda within the Framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs will be presented and discussed as the framework agenda but the course will focus in more depth on poverty, hunger, decent work, economic growth and the climate change agenda. A particular focus will be placed on how to address the negative impacts of the COVID pandemic and higher energy and food prices and subsequent high indebtedness which today burden economic growth in most developing countries. The second pillar of the course is the study of development finance to achieve the SDGs. The course will (i) present the key actors in development finance, such as multilateral and bilateral development finance institutions, the role of the International Monetary Fund, the role of the European Union as a development finance institutions, and the role of China as an important new actor. Private sector flows, foundations and remittances will be presented but not discussed in detail; and (ii) study selectively the instruments how development finance is delivered, such as project finance, budget support financing, delivery on results. The course will review the debate on aid effectiveness and study instruments how to assess effectiveness of aid institutions and their instruments. As part of the course, student will conduct a comprehensive simulation exercise on a Hydrodam Project in Georgia where they will assess the environmental and social impacts of this project and simulate a multilateral decision making process whether the project should be funded from a multilateral development finance institution. The course will be delivered in a seminar format with lectures and discussions but complemented by numerous guest speakers who will join the course online on the specific topics covered in the course.