David Bernstein is Lead Public Sector Specialist in the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice. David is presently working on justice reform and anticorruption projects for the countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, including Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and West Bank & Gaza. Mr. Bernstein is a lawyer who has worked in private legal practice, for the U.S. State Department and for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development before joining the World Bank in late 2003. David has worked on public sector reform projects focusing on the justice sector since 1992 and on anticorruption since 2010. The majority of his work has been with the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. David has also worked in the World Bank's Integrity Vice Presidency where he focused on corruption prevention activities in the East Asia Pacific region and served as advisor to INT’s Policy Director. David has a B.S. in economics and political science from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.