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Watch Ajay Banga, Michelle Bachelet, and Tharman Shanmugaratnam discuss creating jobs for 1.2B young people in this insightful event video.

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Dr. Nadeem ul Haque is currently the Vice Chancellor of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Quaid-e-Azam University Campus, Islamabad. He also served as the deputy chairman of the Planning ...

Benjamin E. Diokno is the Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) appointed to the Monetary Board for a six-year term since 12 January 2024.

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 ...

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist, UN Messenger of Peace and the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As co-founder of MalalaFund she is building a world where every girl can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Mr. Manuel joined the civil service in the Ministry of Finance, where he rose to the position of Minister. He received a M.A in Quantitative Economics from London Guildhall University in 2001. He has ...

Shwetlena Sabarwal is a Lead Economist in World Bank’s Education Global Practice. She was a co-author of the World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise; World Development ...