Christopher Colford was the Editor of the World Bank’s “Private Sector Development” blog from 2014 to 2017. After seven years as a Communications Officer at the World Bank, he joined the International Monetary Fund in the autumn of 2017. In the private sector, he had served as a consultant at Hill & Knowlton Public Affairs Worldwide and as a senior editor at McKinsey & Company. In government, he had served as a speechwriter – at federal financial regulatory agencies – in the Clinton Administration and in the Obama Administration.