Suhail Shersad is a digital economy specialist consulting with the World Bank on challenges in emerging markets related to infrastructure, macroeconomics, competition policy, and governance of frontier technologies. Suhail works with the Digital Development Global Practice on engagements in the Middle East & North Africa, advising primarily on telecom and ICT regulation and market structure, with an emphasis on FCV countries. Suhail's previous experience includes consulting for governments in diverse contexts such as India, Lebanon, and Germany, on challenges such as artificial intelligence regulation, innovation-ecosystem development, and competitiveness. He has also spent a year as a municipal school teacher in New Delhi's Seelampur, India's most population dense district. Suhail received his master's from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, as Harry A. Radliffe II Scholar at the Murrow Center for a Digital World, and received a bachelor's in economics from the Loyola College, in his home country of India.