Doreen is a Senior Operations Officer and FCV Gender Lead in the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) Group, where she works with a team of dedicated professionals to deliver strategic, operational, and analytical support to the World Bank Group's work on FCV issues. Doreen is responsible for leading the global work on gender in the FCV Group. She is the lead author of the recent World Bank publication, ‘A Development Approach to Advancing Gender and Addressing Gender Inequalities in FCV situations’, which is a guide to help World Bank task teams enhance their knowledge and inform gender-responsive policy and operational responses in FCV situations.
Previously, Doreen led the Small States Secretariat in the World Bank Operations, Policy, and Country Services division and developed a Roadmap for World Bank engagement with Small States across the Caribbean, Pacific, and Africa. When Doreen joined the Bank in 2009, she held several positions in the former Sustainable Development Network (SDN). Before joining the World Bank, Doreen had extensive international organization experience in emergency and peace-keeping situations with the UN in East Timor; on macroeconomics and development management issues in Ethiopia and Zambia with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa; and she has worked as an Advisor on high-level diplomacy work on the G8-Africa partnership at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) based in Paris. A development economist by training, Doreen is a Ugandan national and holds two University of London degrees - a Master of Science (MSc) in Development Management from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Development Studies and Geography from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).