Philipp Kollenda is a sustainable finance and development advisor at the World Bank's Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice. He joined the World Bank in 2022 to help build a strong foundation for (sovereign) sustainable finance by combining traditional and innovative data with rigorous analytical methodologies. Philipp supports the work through economic modelling and econometric analysis (especially causal inference and time-series) and by visualizing and communicating actionable insights to policy makers. Philipp is finalizing his PhD in development economics at the Tinbergen Institute/VU Amsterdam where he conducted and published research on sustainable finance and agricultural markets in low-income countries. He holds an MPhil in economics from the Tinbergen Institute, a B.Sc. in economics from the University of Mannheim and has studied or conducted field work in Canada, Kenya, Nicaragua, Thailand and Uganda.