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 ...

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 ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

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 ...

Dan Murphy is a globally renowned CNBC Anchor and Correspondent based in the United Arab Emirates, reporting on business, markets, economics and geopolitics from across the region of the Middle East.

Carla Alexandra Oreste do Rosário Fernandes Louveira is the Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance of Mozambique. She is responsible for overseeing the fiscal policy, public debt management, financial ...

Larbi Alaoui Belrhiti is a successful tech entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the digital industry. He is the founder and co-CEO of YoLaFresh, a tech platform that connects small-holder ...

In his role as Executive vice President (EVP), he is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the IDB and oversees the quality control and risk management of all Bank operations. He serves as chair of ...

Nangamso is currently the CEO of Funda Wande and an experienced education leader. Before being appointed as CEO, her previous portfolios included being Funda Wande’s Versioning and Relationships lead ...

A youth, an active advocate for refugee rights, Opira rose from conditions of protracted crisis, remoteness, and insufficiencies to pursuing his childhood dream - degree in Economics through the UNHCR ...