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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sheila currently serves as Deputy General Counsel for Operations, in the World Bank, after managing the Bank’s Africa and East Asia Pacific portfolios. Sheila earned a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere ...

Dr. Younes Sekkouri is Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Morocco, a position he took up in October 2021. Prior to this, Dr. Sekkouri was the Dean and Director ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hope Ndhlovu, born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is a Co-Founder and CEO of Tuverl. Tuverl is an app that seeks to make Public Transport, cheaper, reliable and more accessible to millions of ...

Mário Campolargo earned a degree in Electrotechnical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, a Master's in Computer Science from Imperial College London, and postgraduate degrees in Management and ...