Camilla Holmemo

Camilla Holmemo

Practice Manager for Social Protection and Jobs

Camilla Holmemo is Practice Manager for Social Protection and Jobs in West and Central Africa, leading the Bank’s engagement on social protection and jobs in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea. Prior to this, she was the World Bank’s Practice Leader for Human Development in India, where she coordinated and led the World Bank’s largest human development work program on health, education and social protection in the world, and the Human Development Practice Leader for Indonesia and Timor Leste, based in Jakarta. She has held leadership positions in strategic, policy and operational work on social protection and human development based in Addis Ababa, Manila and Washington, DC and worked in a number of countries in South and East Asia and Africa.Camilla holds an M.A in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in Economics and Russian from the University of Oslo, Norway.