Ms. Penny Mordaunt was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 9 November 2017. She was appointed Minister for Women and Equalities on 30 April 2018. She was Minister of State ...

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, ...

Academy Award winner Matt Damon is an actor, screenwriter, producer and humanitarian, who has garnered international acclaim for his work both on- and off-screen. Inspired during international travel ...

Christiana Figueres is a world authority on global climate change and was the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC from 2010-2016. Ms. Figueres is currently Vice-Chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors ...

Tharman Shanmugaratnam was elected as Singapore’s President in September 2023. He served in politics for 22 years before resigning to contest in the Presidential Election. He was Deputy Prime Minister ...

Eric Lalo is a Managing Director of Lazard, Sovereign Advisory Group. He has advised numerous sovereign and quasi-sovereign clients across Europe, Africa, Central Asia and Latin America in Capital ...

Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet and serves on Alphabet’s Board of Directors. He joined Google in 2004 and helped lead the development of Google Toolbar and then Google Chrome, which ...

Panel discussion: Investors share their vision for what will stimulate private sector investment in Africa’s energy sector, government initiatives that would increase investor confidence, and consider ...

**The playlist above has all the video recordings from the public sessions held during the conference on March 5-6, 2024.** Watch three livestreamed sessions from the World Bank Group’s inaugural ...

Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people across emerging and developing countries will come of working age. Yet only 400 million jobs are expected to be created. The World Bank Group has ...

Aliko Dangote is the founder, President and Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, the primary holding company of the largest conglomerate in West Africa. A graduate of Business Studies from ...

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 ...