Genevieve Connors is currently the Practice Manager for the Global Platforms Unit in the Environment Department of the World Bank, where she manages corporate engagements and global programs on the blue economy, forests and landscapes, the economics and finance of nature, biodiversity and wildlife, and chemical, air, and plastics pollution.
From 2022-24, she was the Practice Manager for Environment, Natural Resources, and the Blue Economy in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Her group covered operational business lines across a range of sectors ¨C including forestry, biodiversity, pollution, oceans, and climate change ¨C as well as environmental risk management under the Bank¡¯s Environment and Social Framework (ESF) for 28 countries.
Prior to this, from 2017-2022, she was the Practice Manager for Advisory and Operations in the Climate Change Group, where she oversaw tracking and reporting of climate mainstreaming and climate finance in Bank operations. From 2014-2017, she was the Program Leader for Water and Sustainability in the India Country Office, based in New Delhi, leading operations and analytical work in the Bank¡¯s sustainability sectors, including water, environment, agriculture, rural development, disaster management and climate change. From 2011-2015, she supervised implementation of the National Ganga River Basin Project, the $1 billion loan to the Government of India to support cleaning of the Ganges River, and was a founding member of the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) to increase regional cooperation in the management of Himalayan river systems.
She has a B.A. in Modern History from Columbia, an M.Phil. in Development Studies from Cambridge, and a Ph.D in Urban and Regional Planning from MIT. She joined the World Bank as a Young Professional in 2006.