Leonard Good, executive director of the World Bank, will give a lecture at Cornell titled "International Development and the World Bank in the 21st Century" on Friday, Feb. 21, at 3:30 p.m. in the Guerlac Room of the A.D. White House. The lecture is free and open to the public.

A Canadian citizen, Good received his master's and doctoral degrees in economics from the universities of Toronto and Western Ontario, respectively. Before becoming executive director of the World Bank in 1994, he held several senior posts in the Canadian government, including deputy minister of the environment.

Good's visit to Cornell has been organized by graduate students at the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. One of these students, Geoffrey Dubrow, who is pursuing a master's degree in public administration and has worked at the World Bank, said, "The World Bank is currently under fire from both sides of the ideological spectrum. Conservatives point to the enormous economic costs of maintaining the world's largest development organization, while liberals fault the bank for devastating the economies of many developing countries. Mr. Good's talk on the future of this institution in the 21st century inevitably will include a prognosis on how the bank can stay relevant and alive in the year 2000."

Earlier in the day Good will be speaking with Cornell graduate students in a roundtable discussion, Dubrow said. Sponsors of Good's visit to Cornell include the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. For more information about the lecture, call the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs at (607) 255-8018.