Centennial Group Principals

Biography: Anthony Pellegrini, Partner and Board Member

Anthony J. Pellegrini, former Director of Transportation, Water and Sanitation and Urban Development at the World Bank, is a Centennial Group partner and member of the Board. He is chairman of the International Advisory Board of Paranacidade, a Brazilian development fund that lends to local governments; and a cofounder of the International Association of Municipal Development Funds. Until recently, he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Volpe Transportation center, Boston, Massachusetts, a US government owned transportation research institute.

Mr. Pellegrini has extensive international experience in the field of urban development and infrastructure. In his capacity as Director of Transportation, Water and Sanitation and Urban Development at the World Bank, Mr. Pellegrini had responsibility for development of global sector policy, development of partnerships with other institutions, provision of operational project support to regional urban sector units, identification of cross-regional best practice, research, web-based knowledge tools and development of training programs. He chaired the Transportation, Water and Sanitation and Urban Development Sector Boards of the World Bank which brought together all regional sector managers in the Bank responsible for policy issues in these sectors.

Earlier in his career, he was Division Chief, Technical Department, Europe and Central Asia, and Middle East and North Africa Regions, where he was responsible for infrastructure (including urban development) and the private provision of infrastructure services. From 1981 to 1987, Mr. Pellegrini was Division Chief in the Western Africa Department of the World Bank, with responsibility for Infrastructure.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Pellegrini was a policy analyst for the Auerbach Corporation and for the Research Analysis Corporation. Mr. Pellegrini received his doctorate degree from Stanford University.