Calling all young innovators and changemakers! Join the World Bank Group Youth Summit 2025 Pitch Competition Launch on January 16th, 2025 (time to be confirmed). Discover how to pitch your creative ...

The Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, in Dar es Salaam on January 27-28, 2025, will bring together leaders to accelerate energy access for 300 million people in Africa by 2030. Hosted by the United ...

Join us online on January 15 for a panel discussion featuring Indermit Gill, Mohamed El-Erian, Johanna Chua and Martin Wolf.

The World Bank Group’s Spring and Annual Meetings, held each April and October, bring together global leaders, country representatives, and civil society to discuss the global economy, progress on ...

Ousmane Dione is currently the World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa where he leads the Bank's work to provide critical support to region's countries in the face of complex, ...

World Bank Live is the World Bank's event streaming platform designed to engage global audiences in conversations about international development. The platform features high-level debates and events ...

Situmbeko Musokotwane was appointed as the Minister of Finance and National Planning for the Republic of Zambia in August 2021. He has spearheaded Zambia’s economic transformation agenda. In November ...

Norman V. Loayza is Director of the Global Indicators Group in the Development Economics Vice Presidency of the World Bank. He currently supervises the flagship data and reports, Women, Business and ...

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers is one of America’s leading economists. In addition to serving as 71st Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, Dr. Summers served as ...

Axel van Trotsenburg is the World Bank’s Senior Managing Director (SMD), responsible for Development Policy and Partnerships. Read more Read more ...

A British national with Nigerian heritage, Femi Oke is an international journalist, writer and moderator. Since the 1980s, she has worked for BBC television and radio, Sky TV, all U.K. terrestrial ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan became the sixth President of the United Republic of Tanzania in March 2021, following the death of President John Magufuli. She served as Vice President of Tanzania from ...