The World Bank Group Youth Summit's 12th edition, brings together young people (ages 18-35) to tackle urgent global challenges. This year’s focus is on digital transformation, creative industries, and ...

Johann Saathoff, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He has been a ...

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 ...

Join us for the launch of a new Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP) report recommending the most effective ways to keep children learning during and post-pandemic. A new report, ...

A legal environment that supports women is more important than ever. The COVID-19 crisis has disproportionately affected women. Besides the health impacts, lockdowns also exacerbated instances of ...

Kate became CEO of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) in March 2016, having run CIFF's Climate Change team since 2009. Kate became CIFF's first Executive Director for Climate change when ...

José María Blasco Ruiz is an economist Director of the Infrastructure, Health and ICT Division of ICEX Spain Export and Investment. He was the Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of Spain ...

Today’s crises for security, affordability, and resilience make the energy transition more urgent than ever. But developing countries pay higher costs for the energy transition, which risks ...

Mr Rakotoarimanana is the Minister of Finance and Budget of Madagascar. He is an accountant and former Senior Financial Management Specialist at the World Bank office in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He ...

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 ...

Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou is the current Director General of the National Agency for the information society (Ansi). He is also the former Minister - Special Advisor of the President of the Republic and ...

Abebe Aemro Selassie is the Director of the African Department, where he oversees the IMF’s operations and engagement with 45 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Before taking up his current position ...