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 ...

A global industrialist and business strategist, Hussain Al Nowais has over 35 years of experience in investing, developing and managing businesses in the Middle East, Africa and Asia across multiple ...

GO TO SPEAKERS Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people across emerging and developing countries will come of working age. Yet only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. The World Bank ...

About 1.2 billion people are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, and countries more resilient. According to the new World Bank ...

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 ...

GO TO SPEAKERS 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 ...

Veronica Waeni Nzioki is a diplomat and researcher from Kenya. She is presently deployed at the Permanent Mission of Kenya to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva.

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 ...

Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam is Minister of Finance of Ghana and the member of Parliament for Karaga Constituency. Prior to assuming his role as the Minister for Finance, he served as a Minister of State at ...

Susana Moreira is the Executive Director and Co-Chair of the Board of the H2Global Stiftung. She has 15 years of experience working on energy and mining issues. During her 10+ years at the World Bank, ...

Watch a fireside chat with World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on their respective institutional goals going into COP28 in ...