Senior Manager, Environment Department, Sustainable Development

Languages: English,  French, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish

Michele de Nevers is Senior Manager of the World Bank’s Environment Department, managing programs on climate change and a wide range of environmental topics.  The Environment Department is active in areas such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity, land use, forestry, pollution control and abatement and environmental analysis.   

Michele joined the World Bank Group in 1981 and worked on industrial development programs in the South Asia region before moving to work in the finance complex on country risk issues. From 1991 to 1996 she worked on environmental programs in the Latin America region, and was the first coordinator for the Global Environment Facility there. Between 1996 and 2000 Michele was Sector Manager for environment in the Europe and Central Asia Region. From 2000 to 2008 she worked as a Manager and Director in the World Bank Institute on environment and capacity development programs.  Michele was instrumental in launching the World Bank’s greening and corporate social and environmental reporting initiatives.  

Michele holds a Master’s Degree in Management and Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Last updated: September 2010