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Junaid Kamal Ahmad is Vice President of Operations at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the guarantee arm of the World Bank Group (WBG). He is responsible for delivering on MIGA¡¯s mandate of mobilizing private finance for development projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), including the operations of the recently formed WBG Guarantee Platform Junaid was previously the Country Director for the World Bank in India. He joined the Bank in 1991 as a Young Professional and has since held several management positions, leading the Bank¡¯s programs in diverse regions including Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia. He has also served as the Chief of Staff to the President of the World Bank Group. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Ahmad worked in the Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh, in the areas of trade and industrial policy.

As the first Senior Director of the World Bank¡¯s Water Global Practice and the former Country Director for India, Junaid initiated and oversaw multi-billion-dollar sector and country programs covering finance, infrastructure, and human development. He is recognized for his strategic leadership of teams to deliver impact?at scale.

Junaid holds a PhD in Applied Economics from Stanford University, a 2-year MPA from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from Brown University. He has published on fiscal federalism and decentralization and on various aspects of infrastructure reform and service delivery.