The International Monetary Fund–World Bank Group Annual Meetings bring together leaders from government, business, civil society, and international organizations to discuss the global economy and ...

Jasim Husain Thabet serves as TAQA’s Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director (GCEO and MD), a role he has held since July 2020. Jasim, who was elected to TAQA’s Board of Directors in 2019, ...

How can reliable and affordable energy drive jobs, productivity, and economic growth at scale? Reliable and affordable energy is a proven driver of economic development. It powers businesses, improves ...

Jorge Esteve Recolons is General Director of ECOM Agroindustrial, Mexico, and a shareholder and member of the Executive Committee of ECOM Agroindustrial, a leading global agribusiness commodity ...

The Full Mutual Reliance Framework (FMRF) is a landmark collaboration between the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, designed to deepen the two institutions’ collaboration on cofinanced public ...

Akihiko (Aki) Nishio is the World Bank Vice President for Development Finance (DFi) where he oversees strategic mobilization of Bank resources, including the International Development Association (IDA ...

**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 ...

Maximo Torero Cullen is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He joined the Organization in January 2019 as Assistant Director-General for the Economic and Social ...

The conference on 'Laying the Groundwork for Jobs in Africa: Core Infrastructure & Business Environments' was held in Rome at Palazzo Koch, Italy. Creating jobs where young people live is now an ...

Walid Hejazi teaches an MBA course in Islamic Finance, the first such course in Canada. He has published over 50 articles in academic, peer-reviewed journals is completing a book on Islamic project ...

The 2026 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group brought together global leaders to explore one central challenge: creating jobs and accelerating growth through ...

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu opens the 2026 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) with a keynote address on the urgent need for good jobs across ...