Join us live on July 10 for the launch of the 2025 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report, streaming from Monrovia, Liberia.

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 9th President of Mauritania since 2019, and Chairperson of the African Union since February 2024.

Live from Baku, Azerbaijan November 11-22, 2024. GO TO: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS | FEATURED SPEAKERS | NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Leaders from government, the private sector and civil society are gathered in Baku ...

[Gregory J. Felder] Hello, and welcome to the 2024 Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group. My name is Greg Felder, and over the next 30 minutes or so, we’ll hear from distinguished world ...

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 ...

As the world faced a host of intertwined challenges – from climate change, pandemics, fragility, geo-political tensions, to debt distress – the World Bank Group changed to become a better and bigger ...

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.

Abebe Aemro Selassie is the Director of the African Department, where he oversees the IMF’s operations and engagement with 45 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Before taking up his current position ...

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 ...

Dan Murphy is a globally renowned CNBC Anchor and Correspondent based in the United Arab Emirates, reporting on business, markets, economics and geopolitics from across the region of the Middle East.

GO TO: SPEAKERS 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 ...