Sanjay Pradhan

Sanjay Pradhan Vice President World Bank Institute The World Bank Sanjay Pradhan became the Vice-President of the World Bank Institute (WBI) in 2008. He is an authority on governance and anticorruption issues, combining a distinguished research record with extensive operational experience. He has earlier served as the World Bank’s Director for Public Sector Governance, in which capacity he led the development of the Bank’s Governance and Anticorruption Strategy, and he has also served as Sector Manager for Public Sector Governance in Europe and Central Asia, and South Asia. Mr. Pradhan was also a principal author of the 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World. He has authored numerous publications, including articles, books and policy papers and holds a PhD and Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. The World Bank Institute, an integral part of the World Bank Group, is responsible for strengthening the capacity of change agents to solve pressing development problems. WBI goes beyond the transfer of technical skills and focuses on the “how to” of doing development, working with leadership teams and multi-stakeholder coalitions on how to successfully implement reform programs. Since coming aboard in 2008, Mr. Pradhan has led WBI through a major renewal, devising new approaches and tools that broaden and redefine the field of capacity development. Its new strategy consists of three interconnected pillars: Open Knowledge, Collaborative Governance, and Innovative Solutions. For Open Knowledge, WBI helps inspire and connect countries to global knowledge and learning and the “how” of reform. For Collaborative Governance, WBI enables government and non-governmental stakeholders to mobilize and coalesce for collective action. For Open Innovation, WBI scans and incubates innovations to tackle key development challenges. Programs mobilizing different combinations of the three pillars are galvanizing, inspiring, and coalescing change agents to achieve results. A few examples in this area include the creation of tools to engage citizens in the monitoring of public services, the establishment of a brokering mechanism for South-South Knowledge Exchanges, the launching of the World Bank’s e-Institute or the convening of an partnership of donor agencies to jointly geo-map their aid. As Vice-President for WBI, Mr. Pradhan is playing a key role in the current efforts to modernize the World Bank and turn it into a more open and effective institution.