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 Adam Wagstaff is Research Manager of the Human Development and Public Services team in the Development Research Group. He holds a DPhil in economic... Read more » |  Alastair McKechnie has worked for the past twenty seven years in various positions, his previous position being Country Director for Afghanistan, B... Read more » |
 Aleem Walji is the director of the World Bank’s Innovation Labs. He oversees open government, transparency, and accountability initiatives with par... Read more » |  Alison Schafer is a multimedia producer with World Bank External Affairs. Read more » |
 Amy is the Online Communications Officer for Gender and Development at the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank in 2009, she worked as an editor a... Read more » |  Anders Hjorth Agerskov heads the World Bank's Preventive Services Unit in the Integrity Vice Presidency. The unit is responsible for provide just-... Read more » |
 Andrea, originally from Colombia, loves reporting in different languages. She’s passionate about writing, web design, travel and international coll... Read more » | 
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 Angie Gentile is Senior Managing Editor of www.worldbank.org. Since joining the World Bank in 1993, she has worked on full-spectrum communications ... Read more » |  |
 bio Read more » |  Dr. Arup Banerji is the World Bank’s global Director for Social Protection and Labor, overseeing the World Bank’s strategy and knowledge work on labor... Read more » |
 Aude-Sophie is an Economist at the Poverty Reduction, Gender and Equity unit in the Latin America and Caribbean region. She focuses on vulnerability,... Read more » | Audrey Liounis is a Communications Officer in the Bank's operational communications group. Read more » |
 Before his appointment as the region’s chief economist, Augusto de la Torre was a senior advisor responsible for financial matters in Latin America and... Read more » |  Axel van Trotsenburg assumed the role of World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Vice President on February 1, 2013. He oversees a portfolio of over... Read more » |
 Bahar Salimova is an Information Officer with the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). Prior to joining IEG, Bahar worked with the Unit... Read more » | |
 Can Kevenk is a communications consultant with the World Bank Office of the Publisher. Read more » |  In his role as Regional Web Editor for the Latin America and Caribbean Region Carlos oversees several regional sites and writes web features. Prior to... Read more » |
... Read more » |  A UK national, Caroline Anstey, joined the World Bank in 1995 after an earlier career in politics and journalism. She worked as Political Assistant... Read more » |
 Caroline Rusten is a Senior Social Development Specialist in Social Accountability & DFGG Cluster in the Social Development Department at the World... Read more » | CGAP Team Read more » |
 Charles Cormier is a program manager in the South Asia Sustainable Development Department's Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change unit. He has... Read more » |  bio Read more » |
 Christopher Neal is the Senior Communications Officer of the World Bank’s Sustainable Energy Department. Read more » |  World Bank Sector Manager, Human Development Read more » |
 Christopher Walsh joined the World Bank Group's water practice to communicate knowledge from staff water experts to the global public, and to shepherd... Read more » |  Cristian Aedo is a Senior Education Economist in the Europe and Central Asia Human Development Sector, the World Bank. He has published numerous... Read more » |
 Cristian Baeza is the World Bank's Director for Health, Nutrition, and Population, Human Development Network. Dr. Baeza joined the World Bank from... Read more » |
 David Bernstein is a lawyer who has worked in private legal practice, for the U.S. State Department and for the European Bank for Reconstruction an... Read more » |  David is a Senior Economist in the Chief Economist's Office for the Africa Region of the World Bank. He coordinates impact evaluation work across... Read more » |
David Hawkes heads the Special Litigation Unit at the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency. Previously M... Read more » | Professor, Department of Economics, Brown University. Read more » |
 David Treguer holds a Ph.D. in economics from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and works on issues of inclusive green growth and agriculture for the World... Read more » |  David Wilson is the World Bank's Global AIDS Program Director and was previously the Bank's Lead HIV Specialist. His work on HIV/AIDS spans almost 25... Read more » |
 Derek Warren is a Senior Communications Officer with the London office of the World Bank. Read more » |  Dilip Ratha is Manager, Migration and Remittances Unit and CEO, Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) in the Development... Read more » |
 Dina Elnaggar is a Senior Communications Officer at the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency. The World Bank Group's integrity mission is designed... Read more » | 
Donna has enjoyed working in online news and communications since 1998. A consultant at the World Bank, she has worked for AOL a... Read more » |
 Elizabeth Howton is the Online Communications Officer for the World Bank’s South Asia Region. Her experience prior to joining the Bank includes 10 years... Read more » |  Elizabeth King is Director of Education in the Human Development Network of the World Bank. In this position, she is the World Bank's senior s... Read more » |
 Emi Suzuki, Ph.D., is a Demographer at the World Bank. Her areas of interest are demography and health statistics. She has over 11 years experience in... Read more » |  Emily Sinnott is a senior economist in the Human Development Economics Unit of the European and Central Asia Department of the World Bank and co-au... Read more » |
 Enzo de Laurentiis has served as the Regional Procurement Manager of the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank since 2006. On behalf of... Read more » |  Sector Manager, World Bank Health, Nutrition & Population Sector, Africa Region Read more » |
 Fabrice Houdart is the country officer for Central Asia and president of World Bank GLOBE, the Bank’s LGBT employee resource group. During his career at... Read more » |  Development Data Consultant Read more » |
 Fionna Douglas is the program manager and team leader for the Portfolio Quality Knowledge Management and Learning Team in the Bank’s Agriculture an... Read more » |  Francesca has worked on governance, integrity and corruption since the beginning of her career working at the Center of Institutional Reform... Read more » |
 Francis Ghesquiere is Manager of the Disaster Risk Management Practice of the World Bank and Head of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction &... Read more » |  The author is a Lead Economist for Central Asia in the Europe and Central Asia Region in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Department... Read more » |
 Gallina is a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia region, covering the European Union new member states. She is a macroeconomist... Read more » |  Ghulam is a Senior Health Specialist in the New Delhi office in India. Read more » |
 Gregory Kisunko works for the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Vice-unit of the World Bank... Read more » |
 Mr. Fraeters is Manager at the World Bank Institute and leads the World Bank’s South-South Knowledge Exchange agenda. This new agenda for the World Bank... Read more » | Hannah George is team Lead for the Access to Information (AI) unit in External Affairs. She coordinates with various groups across the organization and... Read more » |
 Hari is a carbon finance specialist in the World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit and is part of the Policy and Methodology team. He has been working for more... Read more » |  Senior Communications Officer, World Bank Africa Region Read more » |
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... Read more » |  James Bond, a French national, joined the World Bank Group in 1986. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer of MIGA in March 2008. Jam... Read more » |
 .Jan Walliser is sector manager for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management in the World Bank’s Africa Region. In his current position, he overse... Read more » | 
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Jeanne M. Hauch is a Senior Investigator with the East Asia Pacific Team of the Integrity Vice Presidency of the World Bank. Before joining the Wor... Read more » |  Jee Peng TAN is currently Education Advisor in the Human Development Network of the World Bank where she coordinates the Network’s Bank-wide program on... Read more » |
 Jeff develops and manages products that enable greater access to the Bank’s rich repository of information. He oversaw the development ... Read more » |  Jeni Klugman is the Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank Group. In her current role, she acts as lead spokesperson for gender equality... Read more » |
 Jessica Sinclair Taylor is the Communications Officer for the Mwananchi Programme, a 5 year DFID-funded... Read more » |  Jim leads the World Bank's global corporate online & social media efforts including content strategy, innovation, rapid response, and campaigns in... Read more » |
 Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., became the 12th President of the World Bank Group on July 1, 2012. ... Read more » |  Johannes Zutt, a Dutch national, has been active in development since 1990. His early experience involved program planning, and monitoring and... Read more » |
Mr. Donnelly is the communications advisor for World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. He was vice president and senior editor at Burness Communications and... Read more » |  John Garrison, joined the World Bank in 1996 as a Civil Society Specialist. He spent the first five years working in the Bank’s office in Bra... Read more » |
 John Nash is a lead economist in the Sustainable Development Department of the World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean region, dealing with issues... Read more » |  José Cuesta is a development economist with a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University. He is an affiliated professor at Georgetown University's ... Read more » |
 Mr. Irigoyen is the Director for the Transport, Water, Information and Communications Technologies, and Infrastructure Finance Department in the... Read more » |  Josefina Posadas is an Economist at the Gender and Development Group of the Poverty Reduction Network in the World Bank. She holds a Ph.D. from Boston... Read more » |
 Julia Ross is an Online Communications Officer at the World Bank, where she works with the health, education and social protection/labor teams. Prior to... Read more » |  Justin Yifu Lin is the former World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics. In his capacity, Mr. Lin guided the Bank... Read more » |
 Karin Christiansen is the Director of Publish What You Fund. Prior to setting up Publish What You Fund she worked as the Policy... Read more » |  Karin works at the World Bank's Poverty Reduction & Equity department where she manages web pages and produces content on poverty issues. Befor... Read more » |
 Kaspar Richter, a German national, is the World Bank’s lead economist for the Russian Federation, and Country Sector Coordinator in the Poverty Re... Read more » |  立入 勝義 - Katsuyoshi “Will” Tachiiri ... Read more » |
 Kaushik Basu became Senior Vice President for Development Economics and World Bank Chief Economist on October 1, 2012. Prior to that, he was Chief... Read more » |  As a Communications Officer in the World Bank’s Africa Human Development department, Kavita works on health, education, and social protection. Prio... Read more » |
 As Human Development Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Keith Hansen is responsible for the Bank’s activities in education, health, nutrition... Read more » | Ken received a B.S. in zoology from Cornell and a doctorate at The Johns Hopkins University. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia and has traveled... Read more » |
 Since 2007, Kristina Nwazota has worked for the World Bank Africa Region as the regional web editor. Before joining the Bank, Kristina was International... Read more » |
 McCarthy has earned international recognition for investigations and prosecutions of individuals engaged in corruption as head of South Africa’s D... Read more » |  Livia has spent the past several years helping companies and organizations increase audience reach and awareness about their products and services... Read more » |
 Liviane is YouThink!'s French web editor. ... Read more » |  Luis Arroyo ha trabajado en el Palacio de la Moncloa y en otros altos puestos del Gobierno español. Asesora a gobiernos, primeros ministros, y a líderes... Read more » |
Lynne D. Sherburne-Benz is Sector Manager, Social Protection in the World ... Read more » |
 Maitreyi Bordia Das is Lead Social Development Specialist and Team Leader for Social Inclusion in the Read more » |  Makhtar Diop, a former Senegalese Economy and Finance Minister, is the World Bank’s Vice President for its Africa region. From 2009-2012, Makhtar w... Read more » |
 Mamata is always on the lookout for new and inspiring stories, and will be sharing some of her best finds with you right here on Youthink! Read more » |  Marcelo Giugale is the World Bank's Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Africa. A citizen of Argentina and Italy, he hol... Read more » |
 Margaret coordinates web program tasks and oversees audience feedback and research. Read more » |  Margaret Grosh is the Lead Economist for Human Development in the Latin American and Caribbean Region and co- leader for the Safety Nets Global Exp... Read more » |
 Maria Correia is Sector Manager, Social Development in the South Asia Region. Since joining the Bank in 1994, she has held different positions on gender... Read more » |  Markus Goldstein is a development economist with experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. He is currently the Gender Pr... Read more » |
 Martin Raiser is the Country Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Prior to that, he was the Economic Adviser for Ukraine, and Country Manager... Read more » |  Marwan Muasher, a Jordanian national, joined the World Bank as Senior Vice President of External Affairs on March 16, 2007, from his most recent po... Read more » |
 Maryna is part of the Open Data Group and works on Financial Data and Client Services and Communications (CSC) teams. As part of the CSC team she w... Read more » |  Mauro Azeredo is the World Bank's communications officer for Brazil and responsible for developing and managing the Bank’s communications strategy ... Read more » |
 Meera Shekar is Lead Health & Nutrition Specialist in the Africa region at the World Bank. In this position she is leading the development of a new... Read more » |  Senior Communications Officer, World Bank Africa Region Read more » |
 Merrell is Senior Communications Officer in the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency, a job she has held since 2007. She has worked a... Read more » |  Michael E. Christopher is a Marketing Specialist with the Research and Knowledge Services at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (Read more » |
 Michael supports CGAP’s Knowledge Products, Communications and Web team in managing and marketing the 2012 Photo Contest, as well as supporting the... Read more » |  Mike Trucano is the World Bank's Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist, serving as the World Bank's focal point within the Read more » |
 Michel ROGY, PhD. in Economics and Graduated Telecommunications engineer, is an ICT Policy Advisor within the Information and Communications... Read more » | |
Mike Stefanovic is INT’s Manager of External Investigations, with prior experience as Chief Resident Inv... Read more » |  Miriam Schneidman is a Lead Health Specialist in the Africa Region of the World Bank. She has more than 30 years of experience working on health and... Read more » |
 Moira Donahue is the director of international operations for Safe Kids Worldwide, a global network of organizations with a mission to prevent... Read more » |  Senior Health Specialist, World Bank Africa Region Read more » |
 Munawer Sultan Khwaja is a fiscal economist at the World Bank where he leads the tax reform efforts in ECA. Earlier, he held served as Director of Tax... Read more » |  Muthukumara Mani is a senior environmental economist in the Sustainable Development Department of the World Bank’s South Asia Region. He primarily ... Read more » |
 From September 2006 to November 2007, she was Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution. Prior to that, she was Minister of Foreign Af... Read more » |  Nicholas Keyes is the Communications Officer for ESMAP, the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program. Prior to joining the Bank in mid-2011, he was... Read more » |
 Originally from Ghana, Nicole Amarteifio has developed communication strategies for the Government of Ghana as well as for the United States African... Read more » |  Creating new ways of experiencing content online is a way of life for Nicole. For more than a decade she has led teams on developing web projects i... Read more » |
 Since joining the World Bank in 2003, Nina has worked as a news associate, web writer and editor. While fielding journalists’ questions, monitoring... Read more » |
 Obiageli "Oby" Ezekwesili, a Nigerian national, was appointed Vice President for the World Bank's Africa Region in 2007. She oversees more than 1600... Read more » |  Olivier Puech is the French Web & Social Networks Editor at the World Bank. He previously worked in Paris at the OECD Development Centre as the... Read more » |
 Omar Arias is the Human Development Sector Leader for Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Venezuela since 2008. Prior to joining the Bank, he was the Senior... Read more » |  Otaviano Canuto is the Senior Advisor on BRICS in the Development Economics Department, a new position established by Preside... Read more » |
became the World Bank’s Vice President for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region on January 1, 2005. She is a development e... Read more » |  Patricio V. Marquez is a World Bank Lead Health Specialist and Cluster Leader for the countries in the southern Africa subregion. Until recently he... Read more » |
 Patrick is a Senior Health Specialist at the New Delhi office in India. Read more » |  Patrick L. Osewe is Lead Health Specialist for the Southern Africa region of the World Bank. Based in South Africa, he provides technical assistanc... Read more » |
 Patti Petesch specializes in qualitative field research on poverty, gender, conflict, and participatory development. She is a co-author of On Norms... Read more » |  Paul Bermingham was appointed Director of Operations Services in the Operations Policy and Country Services vice-presidency of the World Bank in June... Read more » |
Paul Haynes is a Team Leader in INT's Research and Analysis Unit, responsible for developing INT's proac... Read more » |  Peter Dewees is Forests Adviser to the World Bank, where he works in the Agriculture and Environmental Services Department. The team he leads has... Read more » |
 PETER LANJOUW, a Dutch national, is Research Manager of the Poverty Group in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. He is also an... Read more » |  Director of External Affairs, World Bank Africa Region Read more » |
 Phillip Jeremy Hay is the Acting Manager of Communications in The World Bank's Africa Region. Read more » |  Philip Karp is currently Advisor, Office of the regional vice president in East Asia and the Pacific in the World Bank. Previously, he was Regional... Read more » |
 Prasanna Lal Das, is Senior Program Officer, Office of the Controller, World Bank. He is a content strategist and KM practitioner with experience in... Read more » |
 Rachel Kyte is the vice president for sustainable development at the World Bank, where she has overall responsibilities for the organization’s global... Read more » |  Randi Ryterman, a US national, joined the World Bank in 1992. She is the new director for Innovation and Change Management at the World Bank Instit... Read more » |
Ravi Kumar is one of the YouThink Editors and is part of the online and social media unit at the World Bank in Washington D.C. |  Richard Fix is the Senior Communications Officer in the World Bank’s Data Group. He and his team manage the group’s website and the distribution of... Read more » |
 Rita K. Almeida is an Economist at the Human Development Social protection Unit of the World Bank. Between 2003 and 2006, she worked at the Development... Read more » |  Robert Hawkins is a Sr. Education Specialist in the World Bank with a focus on science and technology as well as the role of technology in educatio... Read more » |
 Ruslan Yemtsov is a lead economist and team leader for social protection at the World Bank. Prior to his current position, he worked as a poverty... Read more » |
 Sadia Afroze Chowdhury, MD, MPH, a Bangladeshi national, is the Bank's lead specialist on reproductive health.Sadia, joined the Bank in 1998, and h... Read more » | Sandra runs the World Bank Finances Program by day and works on community efforts on education, active transportation, and open government by night.... Read more » |
 The Sanitation Hackathon: December 1-2, 2012 Read more » |  Mr. Sanjay Pradhan is the Vice President of the World Bank Institute. He assumed this position in October 2008. Mr. Pradhan earlier served as the... Read more » |
Saroj Kumar Jha, is the Manager of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), a partnership of 38 countries and 7 international... Read more » |  Sarosh Sattar is an economist at the World Bank. She is the Regional Gender Coordinator for the Europe and Central Asia Region. She received her Ph.D.... Read more » |
 Sergio Jellinek oversees the Bank's communications for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a founder of the COM+ Alliance, a partnership of... Read more » |  Shaida Badiee, an Iranian national, directs the unit that produces the Bank's statistical products, with her work focused on economic information a... Read more » |
Simon Robertson has worked in (law) enforcement for over 30 years and holds an MA in Criminal Intelligen... Read more » | Photographer and Multimedia Editor Read more » |
 Soren Gigler is leading the Mapping for Results Initiative at the World Bank Institute. He is a political economist and since the end of the 1990s has... Read more » |  Souleymane Coulibaly is from Cote d'Ivoire, and is currently the World Bank’s Senior Country Economist for Armenia, and the Europe and Central Asia... Read more » |
 Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director, joined the World Bank in June 2010. She is responsible for the Bank’s operations in Africa, East Asia &am... Read more » |  Online Communications Officer Read more » |
 Stephen Zimmermann is the Director of Operations for the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency, the unit charged with detecting, investigating and... Read more » |  Stephen Knack is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group and in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management unit of the World Bank Group.... Read more » |
 Stuart Yikona, is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist with the World Bank in the Financial Market Integrity Service Line. Prior to joining the World... Read more » |
 Ms. Manuelyan Atinc is the Vice President for Human Development Network, which leads the organization’s work on health, education, social protectio... Read more » |  Tawia Addo-Ashong has been program coordinator for the Global Road Safety Facility since 2010. She is an engineer orginally from Ghana and has worked in... Read more » |
 Tigran Shmis is an Education Specialist in the World Bank’s Moscow office. He joined the Bank in 2007 as a Research Analyst for the Education team in... Read more » |  Tim is an Open Data Specialist at the World Bank, where he supports ongoing efforts to expand and improve the Bank's portfolio of open data products,... Read more » |
Tim is a Forensic Accountant by training. He has been involved in corruption and asset recovery wor... Read more » |  Truman Packard is a Lead Economist and has worked in various operational positions at the World Bank since 1997. Trained as a labor economist, his work... Read more » |
 Valerie Hickey is an environmental scientist and conservation biologist who specializes in biodiversity. Read more » |  Valerie Nussenblatt is a consultant in the World Bank's Africa Region specializing in justice sector issues and competitiveness. She has also worked in... Read more » |
Retrouvez les vidéos et multimédias produits par la Banque mondiale. Read more » |  Vinita Ranade trabaja como consultora en comunicaciones para la web del Banco Mundial en Nueva Dehli, India. Read more » |
 Vinod Thomas was Director-General and Senior Vice President, Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank Group until his retirement in August 2011.... Read more » |  Vivien Foster is the Manager of the Sustainable Energy department of the World Bank. Earlier, she was the Lead Economist in the Office of the Director... Read more » |
 Will Martin is Research Manager, Agriculture and Rural Development, in the Development Research Group. He obtained his first degrees from... Read more » |  William Byrd is currently serving in the World Bank’s Headquarters in Washington, DC as Economic Adviser in the Fragile and Conflict Affected Count... Read more » |