In this interview excerpt, Bernard Snoy et d’Oppuers, Head of the Private Office of Belgian Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt from 1988 to 1991 and Executive Director of the World Bank from 1991 to 1994, discusses his activities at the World Bank during this period as Executive Director of a constituency composed of Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Turkey.

In this interview excerpt, Bernard Snoy et d’Oppuers, Head of the Private Office of Belgian Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt from 1988 to 1991 and Executive Director of the World Bank from 1991 to 1994, describes the issues surrounding the transition of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to democracy and a market economy following the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989.