Alessandra is a Senior Social Protection Specialist with the World Bank’s West and Central Africa Region. She is the task team leader for the Recovery of Economic Activity for Liberian Informal Sector Employment (REALISE) project, and also co-leads operations and analytics on youth employment and safety nets in the Republic of Congo. Previously, Alessandra served as the Gender Lead for the Global Practice for Social Protection and Jobs for four years. Her interests include economic inclusion, early childhood development, social protection delivery systems, and human-centered design. Alessandra re-joined the World Bank in 2019 after more than a decade working for the Asian Development Bank, the OECD and Unicef in Manila, Paris and Kathmandu. She holds an MSc in Political Economy from the London School of Economics and an Executive MBA from INSEAD.