World Bank Group President Ajay Banga addressed the press at the 2025 Spring Meetings Opening Press Conference. “We're trying to change things here and look to deploy proven tools to unlock growth, to ...

Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is the President of Mauritania and the Chairperson of the African Union. He previously served as the General Director of National Security and the Chief of Staff of the Armed ...

Leaders from government, the private sector and civil society are gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29), to accelerate action on the climate crisis. See below ...

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 ...

Simone Tebet is the Minister of Planning and Budgeting of Brazil. She was a Senator for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul between 2015 and 2022. In the Federal Senate, she led the first women's caucus ...

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.

Ashesh Prasann is a Senior Agriculture Economist in the Front Office of the Agriculture and Food Global Practice of the World Bank, working on decarbonization of the food system and repurposing of ...

Sellah Bogonko is a public policy expert with a passion for sustainable development. Her life’s career mission is to significantly contribute to finding sustainable models of addressing the youth ...

Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam is Minister of Finance of Ghana and the member of Parliament for Karaga Constituency. Prior to assuming his role as the Minister for Finance, he served as a Minister of State at ...

Prior to his current role as the Vice Minister, Office of the Central Leading Commission for Finance and Economy and Vice Minister, Ministry of Finance, People’s Republic of China, Mr. Liao had a wide ...

During the event, Ajay Banga addressed the interconnected challenges facing the world today, and the concrete ways the World Bank has delivered to better tackle the toughest challenges facing ...

Watch a fireside chat with World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on their respective institutional goals going into COP28 in ...