The International Monetary Fund–World Bank Group Annual Meetings bring together leaders from government, business, civil society, and international organizations to discuss the global economy and ...

Mr. Henry K. Rotich is the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury. Prior to his appointment, he was the Head of Macroeconomics at the Treasury, Ministry of Finance for 7 years. Prior to joining the ...

Our event series explore key global development challenges and features experts from the public and private sectors, thought leaders and changemakers.

Mr. Lin Yifu (Justin), Director of New Structural Economics, Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and honorary dean, National School of Development at Peking University. He is ...

Joseph E. Stiglitz received his Ph.D from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the prestigious John Bates Clark Award. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, ...

Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. He brings to the role a broad combination of leadership, expertise, and practical ...

Ferid Belhaj took up the position of World Bank Vice President for Middle East and North Africa on July 1, 2018. Prior to this, Mr. Belhaj served 15 months as the Chief of Staff of the President of ...

John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution. He is Director of the ...

Kofi Marfo, is Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Human Development at Aga Khan University (South-Central Asia, East Africa, and UK). He was the Founding Director of the Center for ...

Wanjiru (Ciiru) Waweru Waithaka is a serial entrepreneur from Kenya. Ms. Waithaka graduated in Interior Architecture from the University of Glasgow. She successfully founded and ran an interior ...

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 ...

Mr. Hakimi is the Minister of Finance since 2015 and is the Chairman of the Government High Economic Commission as well as the Co-chair of the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board. He was the ...