Amb. Roya Rahmani
Director of Global Engagement, World Bank Group; Senior Fellow, Future Security
Roya Rahmani is Director of Global Engagement at the World Bank Group, where she builds strategic partnerships to advance the Bank Group’s priorities worldwide. She brings over 20 years of experience across diplomacy, development finance, and civic leadership. She was Afghanistan’s first female Ambassador to the United States and to Indonesia, and its first accredited Ambassador to ASEAN, having earlier served as Director General for Regional Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she led the Heart of Asia–Istanbul Process. An Afghan and Canadian national, she holds degrees from Columbia and McGill and chairs Delphos International.