Background
Eli Whitney Debevoise II, commonly known as “Whitney Debevoise,” was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1953 and graduated from the Saint Albans School in Washington, District of Columbia
Eli Whitney Debevoise II, commonly known as “Whitney Debevoise,” was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1953 and graduated from the Saint Albans School in Washington, District of Columbia
On November 16, 2009 it was announced that he would be replaced by Ian Hoddy Solomon after his term was finished. He graduated summa cum laude in 1974 from Yale University (where he was a member of Manuscript Society), with departmental honors in History and Latin American Studies, and received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1977.
President George West. Bush nominated Debevoise to be United States. Executive Director of the World Bank Group on February 16, 2007 to fill the vacancy left by Robert Holland and acting Executive Director Jennifer Dorn. In 1970. He speaks Portuguese, Spanish, and French fluently, and holds an honorary law degree from Vermont Law School. He is the great, great grandson of Eli Whitney.
Judicial clerkship
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Debevoise clerked for the Honorary
William J. Holloway, Junior., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 1978 through 1979. Private practice
Debevoise started at Arnold & Porter, Limited Liability Partnership as an associate in 1979 and practiced as a partner from 1986 to 2007.
During this time, he increasingly specialized in international financial transactions, banking and international trade. While in private practice, Whitney Debevoise represented the central banks and finance ministries of many countries, as well as the Bank for International Settlements, the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Debevoise has been involved in transactions ranging from Brazil"s $49 billion Brady Plan exercise to numerous Yankee bond, Samurai bond, and Eurobond issuances in ten different currencies.
He was involved with billion dollar equity placements of shares in firms, such as Telfonica Argentina, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), Petroleo Brasileiro Société Anonyme (Petrobras), and Unibanco-Uniao de Bancos Brasileiros. Debevoise also handled cases in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (General Agreement of Tariff and Trades) and World Trade Organization dispute settlement mechanism and at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, including cases establishing rulings on the allocation of arbital expenses and attorney"s fees. World Bank Group
Eli Whitney Debevoise was United States. Executive Director of the World Bank Group from April 6, 2007 to October 2009.
He represented the United States on a 24-member board representing 186 member countries that considers all loans, investments, country assistance strategies, budgets, audits and business plans of the World Bank Group entities.
Borrowers include more than 125 countries and 300 companies and funds.
Debevoise is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Society of International Law, the International Law Section of the American Bar Association, and the International Bar Association.