Julia Dhimitri has more than 15 years of working experience in public sector and governance. She has been working at the PEFA Secretariat for more than five years. Prior to joining the Secretariat, she has been working on the PFM and domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) agendas at the World Bank Group since 2008, in Europe and Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia-Pacific. On DRM she has extensive experience in the design, implementation and reporting of tax policy and revenue administration reform projects. She is a certified Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) assessor. Prior to working at the WBG, she advised the government of Albania on PFM reforms, revenue administration and fiscal decentralization. She holds two master’s degrees from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University- an Executive Master of Public Administration and a Master of Arts in International Relations; and a Postgraduate Diploma on Policy Analysis Skills for Transition Economies from the Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands.

Guillaume Brulé has more than 20 years of working experience in public policies. He has been working at the PEFA Secretariat since 2016. Prior to joining the Secretariat, he had been public external auditor for local governments and the local public sector in France for 7 years, and agricultural economist specialized in international trade and policies for 8 years. He has an extensive knowledge of subnational PFM and governance. Guillaume holds a master’s degree of Agronomy from the National School of Agronomy of Toulouse, a master’s degree of Agricultural Economics from the National School of Agronomy of Rennes. He is an alumnus of the Institute for Public Management and Economic Development of the French Ministry of Finance, and of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration – class Willy Brandt.

Karolien Kaisz has more than 10 years of working experience in public finance. She has been working as an advisor to the Brussels Minister of Finance and Budget since 2019. Prior to joining the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, she had been policy advisor at the Flemish Ministry of Finance and Budget, project manager for the introduction of spending reviews in Flanders and public finances attaché at the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the European Union. She has extensive knowledge of public financial management and the rules-based framework for the coordination of national fiscal policies in the European Union. Karolien holds a Master’s degree in Business Engineering as well as a Master’s degree in International Politics from the KU Leuven.

Patrick Umah Tete has been at the World Bank for 17 years and is currently a Senior Financial Management Specialist and Financial Management Coordinator for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. He works on Public Financial Management reforms in Georgia and Tajikistan. He is also co-Task leader of Public Sector Accounting and Reporting (PULSAR) Program that covers 13 member countries in Europe. Patrick has been involved with PEFA Assessments since 2005 when he participated in the Uganda assessment. More recently, he was the Task Leader for the national assessments of Georgia and Uzbekistan. With regard to Georgia, he also conducted subnational assessments. He has supported the Ministry of Finance in Georgia and Uzbekistan to develop their Public Financial Management (PFM) Strategy using Volume IV of the PEFA Handbook: Using PEFA to support PFM improvements. He has also participated in PEFA initiatives that led to the development of guidelines on Subnational Government PEFA assessments and PEFA Gender Responsive PFM. Patrick is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and holds an MBA from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He has trained in Public Financial Management at Harvard University, the University of London and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Before joining the World Bank, Patrick was an Audit Manager with KPMG.