Leaders from government, the private sector and civil society are gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29), to accelerate action on the climate crisis. See below ...

Watch Ajay Banga, Michelle Bachelet, and Tharman Shanmugaratnam discuss creating jobs for 1.2B young people in this insightful event video.

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 ...

Veronica Waeni Nzioki is a diplomat and researcher from Kenya. She is presently deployed at the Permanent Mission of Kenya to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva.

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 ...

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 ...

Susana Moreira is the Executive Director and Co-Chair of the Board of the H2Global Stiftung. She has 15 years of experience working on energy and mining issues. During her 10+ years at the World Bank, ...

Hanane Mourchid is the Chief Sustainability Officer at OCP Group. She obtained a chemical engineering degree from the Mohammedia School of Engineers in Morocco in 2006. In 2007, she joined the OCP ...

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 ...

GO TO: SPEAKERS Join World Bank President Ajay Banga and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Ilan Goldfajn for an insightful discussion about strategic and collaborative approaches in a ...

Corinne Woods is the Director of Corporate Communications at the World Bank. In her previous role, she served as Senior Adviser to the United Nations and United Nations Foundation focusing on the post ...