
Manager/International Development Expert
Jos Verbeek, a Dutch national, has had a 30-year career in several illustrious roles at the World Bank. In his last role at the World Bank, Jos was the World Bank Manager and Special Representative to the UN and WTO in Geneva. Prior to this, Jos was appointed Adviser to the World Bank Group’s (WBG) President’s Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and later the Senior Vice President 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations and Partnerships. In his advisory role, Jos provided inputs in the WBG’s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a focus on data, finance, and implementation. From 2012-2015, Jos managed the Global Monitoring Report, a joint IMF-WBG flagship publication that analyzes policies and institutions to ultimately assist countries in attaining the MDGs. Preceding this assignment, Jos worked as a lead country economist in the Africa and the European regions. Jos was born in 1962 in the Netherlands. Jos received a PhD (Dr) in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.