Malek Abu-Jawdeh is an Education Specialist based in Abuja, Nigeria. He co-leads Nigeria’s Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) and manages engagements across early childhood, basic education, and skills. Before rejoining the Bank, he was a Project Manager at the OECD, where he led government engagements across the MENA region, managed multi-country education reviews, and was a lead author on the International Early Learning and Child Wellbeing Study. At the Bank, he has supported lending operations in DRC and Senegal, served as a core team member of the World Development Report 2018, “Learning to Realize Education’s Promise,” and contributed to analytical work in Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and the UAE.