Mr. Simon Mizrahi, a British national, is currently the Vice President for the Bank’s Technology and Corporate Services Complex (TCVP).

A seasoned senior executive with more than thirty years of experience exercising strategic leadership on development operations and policies, Mr. Mizrahi excels in fast-paced, high-pressure environments and has executed complex operations in challenging settings around the world.

Mr. Mizrahi has an in-depth understanding of the Bank’s business needs, its operating environment and its corporate governance, as well as extensive experience leading complex corporate reforms. In 2019, he played a key role in the Bank’s proposal for a seventh general capital increase which produced $115 billion in additional capital—the largest increase in the Bank’s history. He also developed the Bank’s Quality Assurance Plan and established the Operations Academy to train operational staff as a means of improving the quality and impact of Bank operations.

Mr. Mizrahi has championed the promotion of transparency and accountability across the Bank, thanks to which the Bank ranked the most transparent development organisation in the world in 2022 and achieved the highest score ever recorded for transparency on sovereign operations.

Before joining the Bank, Mr. Mizrahi was Deputy Head for Aid Effectiveness at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He authored the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action, two landmark agreements adopted by 110 countries and organisations across the world. Before then, he worked as a Country Director for Médecins du Monde in Kigali (Rwanda) and Managua (Nicaragua) from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Mizrahi has a deep first-hand understanding of Africa’s development challenges. He has operated in eight African countries, and in 1994, was Head of Operations for Urgence Rwanda, a coalition of NGOs in charge of delivering humanitarian assistance to Rwanda and Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the immediate aftermath of the genocide. Mr. Mizrahi started his professional career in the financial industry in London.

Mr. Mizrahi holds a Master of Philosophy degree in politics and international relations from the University of Cambridge (1991) and a master’s degree in political science from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (1990).