Kai Kaiser is Senior Governance and Public Sector Specialist in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, currently based in Vienna, where his engagement is focused primarily on issues of public finance and public sector governance reform. He has also been based in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Previously he was Senior Economist at the (global) Public Sector and Governance Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM), in Washington, DC, with a focus on issues of public finance, inter-governmental relations, natural resource-led development, and applied political economy/institutional reform issues. He takes a keen interest in how digital technologies can make a tangible difference in addressing governance challenges for improved service delivery and public infrastructure investments, including through climate change.