Neelam Verjee has worked for the Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Group of the World Bank since December 2013. She has a Masters in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she focused on security studies and conflict, and a BSc in Social Policy and Government from the London School of Economics. Previously, she worked as programs manager at Sisi Ni Amani, an NGO that explored technology as a tool for peacebuilding, and on capacity building projects at the World Policy Institute. Neelam has published extensively as a journalist, having spent five years as a business reporter and features writer for The Times newspaper in London, as well as having worked for The Wall Street Journal’s Mint newspaper in Mumbai, India. She has also contributed to Quartz, the online global news publication of Atlantic Media.