Gender Coordinator, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI) Vice Presidency
Anja Robakowski is the Gender Coordinator of the World Bank Group’s Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI) Vice Presidency.
She focuses on women’s economic empowerment across a range of sectors and topics. Anja’s work includes project design and delivery, conceptualization of learning events, and the creation of cross-cutting knowledge products, taking into account EFI-wide lessons and convening staff to share experiences. Anja has been part of the WBG since 1997 when she joined a team to develop the institution’s Education Sector Strategy. Subsequently, Anja worked in MIGA’s technical assistance (TA) unit, building counterpart capacity to attract foreign direct investment, applying adult-education principles in curriculum design and training delivery. She also developed systematic approaches to monitor results achievement - following a merger of MIGA's TA with IFC, Anja was part of an incubator team that developed and piloted various iterations of an innovative monitoring and evaluation framework which is still applied to IFC’s advisory projects today. Anja is currently on a short-term assignment, advising FCI’s Disaster Risk Finance team on incorporating gender aspects into its work.
