Demet Cabbar

Demet Cabbar

Financial Officer, Office of the President’s Special Envoy

Demet Cabbar works as a financial officer in the Development Finance Vice Presidency (DFi), where she supports the World Bank Group’s engagement in the post-2015 development agenda and its financing.  Prior to joining DFi, she worked as an investment analyst in the World Bank Treasury’s Pension and Endowments Department.

Previously, Cabbar worked as learning coordinator with the World Bank’s Financial Sector Learning Program, where she played a key role in growing the program from a small initiative to a global network of more than 3,000 government officials and private sector executives.  In 2006-2007, as an elected officer to the Youth-to-Youth Community of the World Bank, she co-managed the Youth Innovation Fund, a small grant program aimed at bringing innovative and fresh ideas from youth into the World Bank’s development agenda.

Cabbar earned her bachelor’s degree in management engineering at Istanbul Technical University. She has an MBA/MA in international business and an MS in finance from George Washington University.