Saroj Kumar Jha
Saroj Kumar Jha has been appointed as the Senior Director for the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group in the World Bank group. He has to provide strategic leadership to address the challenge of fragility, conflict and violence, working across the Bank Group and in close collaboration with partners. Jha is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He joined the World Bank in 2005 as a Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the Sustainable Development Network, after significant experience with the Indian Government and the United Nation’s Development Program (UNDP). Earlier, he worked as the World Bank’s Global Manager for Disaster Risk Management Practice.