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Watch the heads of the World Bank Group and IAEA sign a new partnership to support the safe and responsible use of nuclear ...
Join us live on July 10 for the launch of the 2025 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report, ...
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 ...
A global industrialist and business strategist, Hussain Al Nowais has over 35 years of experience in investing, developing and managing businesses in the Middle East, Africa and Asia across multiple ...
GO TO SPEAKERS 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 ...
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 ...
GO TO SPEAKERS 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 ...
World Bank President Ajay Banga and Anna Bjerde, the World Bank's Managing Director of Operations, addressed the press ahead of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group 2024 Annual Meetings.
Robyn O’Brien is a bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur and investor who thrives at the intersection of courage, authenticity, innovation and leadership. Her critically acclaimed books The ...
Elizabeth Nsimadala is a Ugandan agriprenuer and smallholder farmer. Elizabeth served as a member of the United Nations Advisory Committee for The Secretary General’s Food Systems Summit 2021. She ...
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 ...