Grace Malie is the Rising Nations Youth Delegate from Tuvalu for COP29. Grace is a passionate advocate for Tuvalu, standing up for its culture, heritage, and youth in the face of the devastating ...

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.

GO TO SPEAKERS 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 ...

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.

Ashesh Prasann is a Senior Agriculture Economist in the Front Office of the Agriculture and Food Global Practice of the World Bank, working on decarbonization of the food system and repurposing of ...

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 ...

He assumed the position of the Director General on September 8th, 2022 and the Executive Director of the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan (UFRD) on August 8th, ...

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 ...