Vanina Forget is a Senior Agriculture Economist at the World Bank, working across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan region (MENAAP). She focuses on strategic analytics and policy reforms towards food security, climate resilience, environmental and fiscal sustainability. Before joining the Bank, Vanina served the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of France as an analyst in trade policies, as country Delegate to the OECD Committee for Agriculture, and then as Head of the Policy Evaluation Unit of the Ministry. She joined the World Bank to support agricultural policy repurposing in Eastern and Southern Africa through financial programs (Tanzania, Zambia), evaluative analytics (Zambia, South Sudan), and public expenditures reviews (Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia).
Vanina holds a PhD in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique (France); an Agronomist engineering degree, an MSc in Economics of Sustainable Development, and a Post-Master's degree in Public Management and Administration (IPEF) from AgroParisTech (France). Her research has been published in top-ranked academic journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Economic Surveys, and has been awarded by the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investments and the French Academy of Agriculture.