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Sustainable innovation can transform Africa’s future. The Financial Times and the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) hosted the inaugural Africa Sustainable Futures ...

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.

Reine Essobmadje is the co-founder of Digital Coalition and CEO of Evolving Consulting, a firm specializing in digital transformation in Europe and Africa. She holds a Global Executive MBA from IE ...

Watch the replay of this press event organized on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank Group Annual Meetings, where Spain announced an early financial commitment of €400 million to the International ...

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 ...

Eric Asomani Asante is an ICT teacher, curriculum leader, and school chaplain at Naylor SDA Basic School in the Tema metropolis of Ghana. He holds a Diploma from the Seventh-Day Adventist College of ...

Carlos Cuerpo Caballero, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Enterprise of Spain since December 2023, holds a degree in Economics (2003) from the University of Extremadura, a Master's in Economics from ...

Professor Loretta Feris was appointed as Vice-Principal, Academic at the University of Pretoria (UP) on July 1, 2022. Her portfolio includes responsibility for all nine faculties and the Gordon ...

Satu Kahkonen is the World Bank Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Eswatini. Ms. Kahkonen oversees the Bank’s program in these countries and leads policy dialogue with ...

Caroline Heider was the second Director General of Evaluation (2011-2018) and Vice President of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). Before joining IEG, Ms. Heider headed the Office of Evaluation ...

Dr. Sandie Okoro is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the World Bank Group. As the first British national and the first black woman to hold this role, She is the principal advisor and ...