Speaker

Joyce Antone Ibrahim is the Manager of the World Development Report 2023 on Migrants, Refugees, and Societies. Prior to that, she spent nearly six years with the Subnational Doing Business Unit, where she led studies to assess the business environment in China, Malaysia, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates. She also worked with the Doing Business project on various indicators, including leading the dealing with construction permits indicator for three years, as well as on financial inclusion and transparency issues within the World Bank. Joyce holds a Master’s of Arts in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor’s of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.