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Samuel Munzele Maimbo is is a senior financial sector specialist in the South Asia Region of the World Bank. Since March 2002, Maimbo has been leading the Bank’s work on informal remittance systems. His publications on the subject include a joint IMF Occasional Paper titled “Informal Funds Transfer Systems: An Analysis of the Informal Hawala System,” “The Money Exchange Dealers of Kabul: A Study of the Hawala System in Afghanistan,” and “Migrant Labour Remittances in the South Asia Region.” Before joining the World Bank, he worked as a senior bank inspector with the Bank of Zambia (1995–97), and briefly as an auditor with PriceWaterhouse. A Rhodes Scholar, Maimbo obtained a Ph.D. in public administration and an MBAdegree from the University of Manchester and the University of Nottingham, respectively. He is also fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom, and a fellow of the Zambia Institute of Certified Accountants.