Dr. Omar Razzaz is the former Prime Minister of Jordan (2018-2020) and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Initiative (MEI) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Board Member ...

World Bank Group President Ajay Banga addressed the press at the 2025 Spring Meetings Opening Press Conference. “We're trying to change things here and look to deploy proven tools to unlock growth, to ...

Grace Malie is the Rising Nations Youth Delegate from Tuvalu for COP29. Grace is a passionate advocate for Tuvalu, standing up for its culture, heritage, and youth in the face of the devastating ...

Watch Ajay Banga, Michelle Bachelet, and Tharman Shanmugaratnam discuss creating jobs for 1.2B young people in this insightful event video.

Simone Tebet is the Minister of Planning and Budgeting of Brazil. She was a Senator for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul between 2015 and 2022. In the Federal Senate, she led the first women's caucus ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

Jean-Christophe Carret is the World Bank Country Director for the Middle East Department (Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria). Before this appointment, Mr. Carret was Country Director for the ...

Sellah Bogonko is a public policy expert with a passion for sustainable development. Her life’s career mission is to significantly contribute to finding sustainable models of addressing the youth ...

Abebe Aemro Selassie is the Director of the African Department, where he oversees the IMF’s operations and engagement with 45 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Before taking up his current position ...

Prior to his current role as the Vice Minister, Office of the Central Leading Commission for Finance and Economy and Vice Minister, Ministry of Finance, People’s Republic of China, Mr. Liao had a wide ...

Ms. Faith Lumonya is the Economic Justice and Climate Action Programme Lead at Akina Mama wa Afrika a pan-African feminist leadership development organization.

Abigail Dalton is the Operations Officer for the Mind, Behavior, and Development Unit. Previously, she was the Assistant Director of the Behavioral Insights Group (BIG) at the Harvard Kennedy School, ...