Anne Schuchardt is a consultant focusing on digital inclusion with the World Bank’s Digital Vice Presidency. She joined the Bank in 2022 and has worked extensively with the Identification for Development (ID4D) team as an inclusion specialist. In this role, she supported the Ethiopia country team and government counterparts on the refugee component financed through the Window for Host Communities and Refugees (WHR), contributed to the research agenda—including an ID gender gap study in Mozambique—and leads the program’s work on statelessness.
Drawing on her expertise in digital development in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, Anne also supports the global digital team on a range of FCV-related issues, with a particular focus on inclusion of forcibly displaced populations.
Before joining the World Bank, she was a Mercator Fellow with Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, working with international organizations and NGOs on the topic of statelessness in the Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Nairobi, Kenya; and DC, USA.
Anne holds a Master’s degree (cum laude) in International Human Rights from the University of Padova, Italy. She speaks German, English, and Italian.
In her free time, she enjoys reading Italian children’s literature and volunteers at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada.