Najy Benhassine is the World Bank’s Director for the Central Asia region. Before that he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Pakistan. Prior to that, he was the Regional Director for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions in the Middle East and North Africa region and the Director of Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, where he oversaw the regional team and the global teams responsible for Firms, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Markets and Technology. Before his tenure, he served as Practice Manager in the Trade & Competitiveness Global Practice.
Mr. Benhassine joined the World Bank Group in 2001, following roles at McKinsey & Company and as a lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
He holds degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the Paris Graduate School of Management, and the Paris School of Economics, and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
