Minister of Finance, Minister of State for Financial Services, and Minister in charge of Reviewing Special Measures ...

President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Chairperson of ADB’s Board of Directors. He was elected President by ...

Mr. Romer is the World Bank’s Chief Economist. Before joining the World Bank group, he was Professor at New York University (NYU) and Director of the Marron Institute of Urban Management which deepens ...

Faith Nwadishi is the Founder and Executive Director of Koyenum Immallah Foundation, a non-governmental organization based in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria that champions the cause of extractives ...

At 14, Australian-born Hugh Evans spent the night in a Manila slum. The realities of his hosts’ lives motivated him to challenge the status quo of extreme poverty. After a trip to S. Africa in 2002, ...

Betty Bigombe, a Ugandan national, has played a key role in conflict resolution in Africa. She led the peace and humanitarian efforts in northern Uganda, first in the 1990s as Minister of State for ...

Karin Finkelston is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group.

The World Bank Group’s Annual Meetings flagship event launched AgriConnect, a new initiative to transform small-scale farming into an engine of sustainable growth, jobs, and food security. President ...

Dr Margaret Chan, from the People's Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She joined the Hong Kong Department of Health in 1978, where her ...

The World Bank Group’s Annual Conference on Development Economics—ABCDE—is a 36-year-old forum to stimulate an exchange of ideas between leaders in global ...

At the World Bank Group’s 2017 Annual Meetings, seven countries committed to transformational investments in people either at home or at the global level. These commitments followed World Bank Group ...