People & professional development
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2 Nov 17Bangladesh’s public finances were already suffering because of poor economic management, political crises and corruption, when it took on the cost of its huge support to Rohingya refugees....
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29 Sep 17It will be a case of one small step interspersed with the occasional burst of rapid progress for new chief finance officers getting to grips with complicated environments, says CIPFA's Claire Lake....
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20 Apr 17Helen Clark has concluded her final term as head of the United Nations Development Programme, which she has led for the past eight years.
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1 Nov 16The World Bank has appointed the European Commission’s vice president for budget and human resources to the newly created role of chief executive.
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29 Sep 16The World Bank’s board has unanimously reappointed incumbent president Jim Yong Kim for a second five year term, despite vocal objections from staff and international demand for a non-American...
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5 Sep 16The International Integrated Reporting Council has appointed Richard Howitt, a member of the European Parliament for the UK’s Labour Party, as its new chief executive.
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24 Aug 16The World Bank has refused a staff request to overhaul its leadership selection process as current president Jim Yong Kim sets his eyes on a second five-year term.
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22 Aug 16Former French economy minister Arnaud Montebourg has announced his candidacy for next year’s presidential elections, and accused incumbent François Hollande of betraying the “ideals of the left”.
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16 Aug 16The United Nations secretary general has said it is “high time” for a woman to lead the organisation after its more than 70 years of existence.
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5 Aug 16Asian Development Bank president Takehiko Nakao has been unanimously re-elected for a second term by the bank’s board of governors.
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22 Jul 16The United Nations Security Council has conducted the first secret ballot to decide who will succeed Ban Ki-Moon as the UN's next secretary general.
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18 Jul 16The director of the International Monetary Fund’s Middle East and Central Asia Department is to retire from the fund in October.
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18 Jul 16The president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean has been re-elected for 2016-17, alongside her deputy, it was announced last week.
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8 Apr 16Asian Development Bank president Takehiko Nakao has announced he intends to stand for re-election to the role.
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5 Apr 16Helen Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Programme, has announced she will run to succeed Ban Ki-Moon as the next UN secretary general.
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27 May 15From on-the-ground development in Botswana to the top spot at DFID and now the EBRD, Sir Suma Chakrabarti’s career has been rooted in a passion for deliverable development. Here, he looks back...
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