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 ...

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 ...

Annalisa Prizzon is a Principal Research Fellow in the Development and Public Finance Programme at ODI. Annalisa Prizzon is an accomplished and recognized expert with more than 15 years of experience ...

Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people across emerging and developing countries will come of working age. Yet only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. The World Bank Group has ...

Simone Tebet is the Minister of Planning and Budgeting of Brazil. She was a Senator for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul between 2015 and 2022. In the Federal Senate, she led the first women's caucus ...

Sellah Bogonko is a public policy expert with a passion for sustainable development. Her life’s career mission is to significantly contribute to finding sustainable models of addressing the youth ...

Marci Ien is Canada’s Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, and the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre – a community she has proudly represented since 2020. She is a passionate ...

During the event, Ajay Banga addressed the interconnected challenges facing the world today, and the concrete ways the World Bank has delivered to better tackle the toughest challenges facing ...

Watch a fireside chat with World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on their respective institutional goals going into COP28 in ...

Rishi Goyal is the Deputy Director and Senior Adviser on Gender in the Strategy Policy and Review Department of the of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Mr. Goyal has been working at the IMF ...

The Law, Justice and Development Week – LJD Week – is an annual conference organized by the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. This year's theme is "Partnering for Impact: Mobilizing the Private ...

Priya Basu is the Executive Head of the Secretariat for the newly established the Pandemic Fund, hosted by the World Bank. Priya has also been serving as head of the Secretariat for the COVID-19 task ...