Tina George is a Lead Social Protection Specialist and Program Leader Human Development for Nigeria with the Africa Western and Central region of the World Bank. With a career in human development spanning two decades, Tina’s work focuses on strengthening state capabilities and service delivery interventions for the poor and vulnerable. In 2023, she led the preparation of Togo’s pioneering IDA Program for Results operation. In 2018, she led the World Bank’s first regional Multiphase Programmatic Approach operation with a multidisciplinary team, covering 6 countries - Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Niger. Previously, she served as Global Co-Lead for Social Protection Delivery Systems, where she represented the Bank on the Digital Economy Task Force under the 2018 Argentine G20 Presidency. She is a lead author of several publications and holds a PhD in Technology Policy from Technische Universiteit Delft in the Netherlands.