Dr. Cleo Rose-Innes is a Development Finance expert based in Washington DC. She is currently working in the Thought Leadership team of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). She served as Senior Advisor in the office representing Angola, Nigeria and South Africa on the Board of the World Bank from September 2015 to January 2019. She advised successive Executive Directors on the Board on World Bank on issues of financial and operational oversight, with a special focus on risk. Before moving to Washington, she worked in the International Relations and Economic Policy Division of the National Treasury of South Africa. In that role she briefed successive Ministers of Finance on issues of international political economy and financial relations specific to MDBs and later meetings of G20 and BRICS Ministers and Heads of State. She worked extensively in Africa and visited most G20 countries in this role. She has an MSc in Finance for Development and a PhD in Economics from London University (SOAS). Her research interests include the alignment of public and private interests in economic development and its implications for the evolution of institutions and economic governance.