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The World Bank Group Youth Summit's 12th edition, brings together young people (ages 18-35) to tackle urgent global challenges. This year’s focus is on digital transformation, creative industries, and ...
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 ...
Arantxa is a health economist currently working as an associate professor at the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico. She is national researcher II by the National System of Researchers ...
international development. He has held various public sector positions in Paraguay, including Senator, Minister of Planning for Economic and Social Development, Ambassador of Paraguay to the United ...
Abdourahmane Cissé is Minister of Budget since November 2013. Since January 2013, he had held the position of Cabinet Director for Mrs Nialé Kaba, minister attached to the Prime Minister for Economy ...
The World Bank’s focus on foundational skills requires that issues of language and Language of Instruction be brought to the forefront of education policy discussions. Poor Language of Instruction ...
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 ...
Mr. Muhammad Aurangzeb assumed the role of Minister responsible for Finance and Revenue in the Federal cabinet of the Government of Pakistan in March 2024. Prior to this responsibility, Mr. Aurangzeb ...
Friederike Röder is France director at ONE and also the global lead for the G7 and G20. ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organisation of more than seven million people around the world taking action ...
Lesly Goh (LinkedIn Profile) is the World Bank Group Chief Technology Officer and Director of Enterprise Architecture and Technology. Her expertise is in leveraging Cloud technology to deliver ...