Jamal Saghir

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Jamal Saghir
Director
Energy and Water
The World Bank


Mr. Jamal Saghir is Director, Energy and Water, Private Sector Development and Infrastructure Vice Presidency (PSIVP) at the World Bank. The position also includes management of the network functions for the Energy and Water sectors Bank-wide. In this context, he also chairs the Energy and Mining Sector Board, and the Water and Sanitation Sector Board. Mr. Saghir, a citizen of Canada and Lebanon, joined the Bank in 1990 as a Financial Officer in the Private Sector Financial Operations Group of the Co-financing and Financial Advisory Services. He worked on a variety of private sector development, privatization and restructuring assignments in projects and sector work in Africa, Latin America, the CIS countries and the Middle East and North Africa. In 1994, he joined the Middle East Country Department as a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist in the Industry and Energy Operations Division. He transferred to the Private Sector Development and Infrastructure Division in 1995 where he was promoted to Principal Private Sector Development Specialist in 1997. He was assigned to the Infrastructure Development Group in the 1997 reorganization, where he was promoted to the position of Sector Leader in 1998 for Urban Water and Sanitation. In 1999, he was appointed Sector Manager, in the Infrastructure Development Group in MENA. In December 2000, Mr. Saghir became Director of Energy and Water, after the reorganization of the Infrastructure Department. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Saghir served as resident advisor to the Prime Ministry in Tunisia (1988-1990) and was responsible for managing a major USAID-funded program in Tunisia to privatize and restructure state-owned enterprises. From 1985-1988, Mr. Saghir held the positions of Economic Adviser and Chief of Staff to the Associate Minister of Finance and Privatization in the Government of Quebec in Canada.

Mr. Saghir has spoken at numerous events about privatization, Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI), energy development and water and wastewater development across the globe and has contributed to several publications.





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