Alma Nurshaikhova is a Senior Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank, based in Nairobi. She leads a flagship state-building operation on Recurrent Cost and Reform Financing in Somalia. Since joining the Bank in 2014, Alma has worked on investment operations and analytical tasks on public finance management, domestic revenue mobilization, justice, strategic planning, performance monitoring and evaluation, intergovernmental fiscal relations, decentralization, and governance in service delivery in Europe and Central Asia, East Asia, and Pacific, and most recently in East Africa. Before joining the Bank in 2014, Alma worked in various positions at the Sovereign Wealth Fund “Samruk-Kazyna,” Center for Trade Policy Development, and United Nations Development Program in Kazakhstan. Alma holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan, and a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She also pursued a professional development opportunity in Economic Development at Michigan State University funded by the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship.