Benjamin Herzberg is Senior Private Sector Development Specialist at the World Bank Group, working on the Refugee Investment and Matchmaking Platform and on entrepreneurship and policy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa. Since he joined the Bank in 2004, he led global programs on public-private dialogue, open private sector data, and youth in development, and worked in over 30 countries on business climate, competitiveness, and investment generation. Beforehand, he worked on SME advocacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in banking (France), biotechnology (Israel) and high-technology (USA). Herzberg holds a post-graduate degree in Geography and Environment from the Université des Sciences et Techniques, and a Suma Cum Laude Master's degree in Geography from the Université de la Sorbonne, France.