Rami Amin

Dr. Rami Amin leads several initiatives at The World Bank and in collaboration with the IFC, developing insight to inform clients and Bank-financed operations on how to accelerate digital transformation, investment, and economic growth. His advisory work focuses on 5G, AI, cloud and data infrastructure, technology adoption, and developing innovative solutions to connect the unconnected through affordable financing. In addition to publications on these subjects, he is regularly invited to give keynote speeches and present on expert panels on these topics at the United Nations headquarters, the ITU, IEEE, the WSIS Forum, ICIC, WTIS, the IAEA, and global UNESCO Summits, as well as guest-lectures in academia.
He also co-leads the World Bank’s Secretariat for Mainstreaming Digital and Disruptive Technologies, manages its thought leadership series on Digital Development, and was appointed The World Bank’s IEG MAR focal point on Mobilizing Technology for Development. He is a member of various multi-stakeholder expert working groups including the UN-Interagency WG on AI, GlobalPolicy.AI, and the Global Forum for Law, Justice and Development, amongst others.
Prior to joining The World Bank, Rami coordinated Oxford University’s leading research center for interdisciplinary collaboration, providing early-stage funding for projects considered to be radically innovative with high-impact potential. Prior to this he worked for the ECIR Cybersecurity Initiative at MIT, the Shorenstein Center at Harvard, and was also a Google Public Policy Fellow focusing on trade and regulation of digital platforms and services.
Rami was awarded a PhD / DPhil from Oxford, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard, and was a policy and international affairs fellow at Princeton.