Mr. Ijjasz has over 30 years of experience in international development, consulting, and academia, in the areas of sustainable development, infrastructure, financing, and climate change. He is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is a Senior Advisor to several international organizations and IFIs, including the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), the Global Center on Climate Adaptation (GCA) ADB, AIIB, UNESCO, and the World Bank, with a focus on climate change adaptation.

 

Mr. Ijjasz worked for 23 years at the World Bank, in more than 90 developing and emerging economies in all regions of the world - from fragile and conflict-affected countries to high-middle-income countries. He oversaw a portfolio of more than $80B of investments and close to 800 policy reports on infrastructure, sustainable development, and climate change.

 

Mr. Ijjasz is a member of the Board of Directors of Miyamoto International, a humanitarian and disaster response company; Cadasta, a foundation that leverages technology to provide land right titles to indigenous peoples; and the Global Reporting Initiative, an organization that develops ESG standards currently used by more than 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries.

 

Mr. Ijjasz has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Hydrology and Water Resources. He is a lecturer on climate change adaptation at Georgetown University (Washington, DC), and has lectured at Johns Hopkins University, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the National University of Singapore. Mr. Ijjasz has published books on climate change, organizational effectiveness, and knowledge management. He has been featured in, and has been an expert source to, several global media outlets such as CNN, Wall St. Journal, Time, The Economist, LA Times, and CNBC.