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Dr. Omar Razzaz is the former Prime Minister of Jordan (2018-2020) and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Initiative (MEI) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Board Member ...
Mr. Muhammad Aurangzeb assumed the role of Minister responsible for Finance and Revenue in the Federal cabinet of the Government of Pakistan in March 2024. Prior to this responsibility, Mr. Aurangzeb ...
World Bank Group President Ajay Banga addressed the press at the 2025 Spring Meetings Opening Press Conference. “We're trying to change things here and look to deploy proven tools to unlock growth, to ...
Ruth Davis OBE was appointed UK Special Representative for Nature on 15 November 2024. Ruth studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University. She later received a Masters degree in Plant ...
Aisha Khan has over 20 years experience in development work. As Founder & Head of the Civil Society Coalition for Climate Change & Mountain and Glacier Protection Organization, she works at the ...
Dr. James Mwangi is Group CEO of Equity Group Holdings, credited with democratizing financial access, leading Equity to become an integrated financial services Group operating in 6 African countries ...
Watch a series of events on climate change, broadcast live from the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference. The World Bank Group is doubling down on its climate action, as part of its new ...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan became the sixth President of the United Republic of Tanzania in March 2021, following the death of President John Magufuli. She served as Vice President of Tanzania from ...
Alex Habershon is the Program Manager and Global Lead for Anticorruption in the Governance Global Practice of the World Bank. She has helped advance the anticorruption goals of the World Bank for over ...
Mark Carney is the Co-Chair for the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action, Chair of Brookfield Asset Management, and Head of Transition Investing at ...
Adriano Afonso Maleiane is Mozambique’s Minister of Economy and Finance. Previously, he served as Governor of the Bank of Mozambique (1991-2006) where he oversaw the removal of the commercial banking ...
Haishan Fu is the Chief Statistician of the World Bank and the Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group. In this capacity, Haishan leads and coordinates the development and implementation ...