Specialization:

East Asia Pacific, MENA, South Asia, Macroeconomics, Development Policy, Country Relationship Management, Regional Cooperation

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Sadiq Ahmed, a Bangladeshi national, joined the Bank in 1981 through the Young Professionals Program. Between 1981 and 1995, he worked as an economist for Egypt, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, leading the Bank's policy dialogue on macroeconomic issues, and preparing country economic reports and adjustment lending operations in these countries.

In 1995 he was appointed Chief of the Bank's Resident Mission in Pakistan and subsequently became the Country Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this capacity, he was responsible for strategy formulation, country dialogue and implementation of the World Bank's country assistance strategy in those countries. In 1999, he was appointed the South Asia Region's Chief Economist and in 2001 was asked to serve concurrently as Sector Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM).   In January 2004, the position of the Chief Economist and PREM Sector Director was split, and Mr. Ahmed became Sector Director for PREM. As Sector Director for PREM, he was responsible for managing economic policy dialogue and adjustment lending operations for the Region. In November 2007, he was appointed Senior Manager for Regional Programs in the South Asia Region. In this capacity, he oversees all aspects of regional cooperation within South Asia and cooperation between South Asia and other regions. Mr. Ahmed was educated at the London School of Economics and Boston University. He has written and published extensively in the areas of public finance, monetary economics, development economics, and poverty analysis.

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Updated 07-24-2008