Yongmei Zhou is a co-Director of the World Development Report on Governance and the Law. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley before joining the World Bank ...

Dr. Khaled Abdelghaffar (Arabic: خالد عاطف عبد الغفار) is the former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and the current Minister of Health and Population in Egypt. He was appointed ...

Jasim Husain Thabet serves as TAQA’s Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director (GCEO and MD), a role he has held since July 2020. Jasim, who was elected to TAQA’s Board of Directors in 2019, ...

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Zhou Xiaochuan is Governor of the People’s Bank of China. He is also Chairman of Asian Consultative Council of the BIS, Chairman of China Society for Finance and Banking, China Governor at IMF and ...

Jorge Esteve Recolons is General Director of ECOM Agroindustrial, Mexico, and a shareholder and member of the Executive Committee of ECOM Agroindustrial, a leading global agribusiness commodity ...

Lou Jiwei is Minister of Finance of the People’s Republic of China. He is a member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Before he was appointed Minister of Finance in 2013, ...

The Full Mutual Reliance Framework (FMRF) is a landmark collaboration between the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, designed to deepen the two institutions’ collaboration on cofinanced public ...

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 ...

Rania Al-Mashat, Egypt’s Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation explains how tourism has created direct jobs and boosted other sectors. Watch more How to Equip Young ...

Phyllis Kurlander Costanza is the CEO of the UBS Optimus Foundation. Prior to this, she was with the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and also served as a CIFF board member for eight years ...