Nabila Assaf is an Operations Manager in the Fragility, Conflict, Violence and Forced Displacement Group at the World Bank, providing support to country programs operating in conflict and violence affected contexts. Prior to that she was Senior Private Sector Specialist, and then Practice Manager, for the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice in the Middle East and South Asia regions. Prior to that she held other positions in the World Bank in Washington DC and the World Bank’s Jerusalem country office. Her work has focused largely on the private sector development and jobs in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, working on programs in several conflict affected countries such as Afghanistan, DRC, Iraq, and Yemen. Prior to her work at the World Bank, she spent most of her career working in industry, management consulting, and private sector and export development in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and the US. Nabila has a master's degree in industrial engineering and management from the University of Washington.