Eva Kloeve

Eva Kloeve

Senior Program Officer in the Nordic Trust Fund Secretariat in the World Bank

Eva Kloeve works as Senior Program Officer in the Nordic Trust Fund Secretariat in the World Bank, providing technical human rights assistance to grant teams as well as cross-support to SPJ teams. She came to the Bank from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, where she worked as a specialist in evaluation, and earlier in social protection and education. During the early years of her career, she worked for NGOs engaged in education programs, such as the Norwegian Students’ And Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH) where she held the position of Vice President. Eva holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Centre of the Study of Equality, Social Organization and Performance (ESOP), a Centre of Excellence at the University of Oslo. Her research focused on social and anti-social institutions in Africa, including the South African social protection system. Throughout her career, she has worked on development through a human rights lens -focusing on social and economic inequality and how they relate.