After 23 years with the World Bank, where he held senior leadership positions in sustainable development and infrastructure, Ede Ijjasz launched a boutique consulting company specialized in sustainability, climate adaptation, organizational change, and knowledge management. His clients include ADB, AIIB, the Global Center on Adaptation, The Growth Dialogue, the Lincoln Land Institute, UNDP, WMO, WB, World Resources Institute, and private companies in the climate resilience area like Miyamoto International and Everbridge. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He recently completed co-editing the book “State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa,” and is working on two other books: “Disruptive Technologies for Sustainable Development” and “Knowledge Management and Organizational Change” to be published by Routledge in 2022.
During his career at the World Bank, he managed a team of 700 staff and more than 1000 consultants working in more than 90 developing and emerging countries in all regions of the world – from fragile and conflict-affected countries to high-middle-income countries. He was responsible for a portfolio of about $80 billion of investments and close to 800 policy and advisory reports. He was regional director for sustainable development and infrastructure for Africa and Latin America, global senior director for the social, urban, rural, and resilience technical practice, and manager of the China sustainable development and infrastructure program.
Ede has been featured in several global media outlets such as CNN, Wall St. Journal, Time, The Economist, LA Times, and CNBC. He has been a lecturer at Tsinghua University and Johns Hopkins University on Sustainable Development courses.
