Public workforce performance and prosperity

Join us for a special event featuring the World Bank’s Public Workforce Performance and Prosperity Report, the first-ever global stocktaking of public sector employment. This presentation forms part of a worldwide series of regional events through which the World Bank is sharing the report’s findings, with launches taking place across different World Bank regions.

The report examines how to enhance the effectiveness of the world’s 400 million public sector workers, who play a critical role in delivering essential government functions and enabling strong development outcomes. These include better jobs, improved education and health services, climate action, peace and security, fiscal sustainability, and renewed public trust. At its core is a new conceptual framework that explores how workforce performance is shaped by key inputs, particularly the size, quality, and compensation of the public workforce, as well as by organisational practices such as performance management, training, collaboration, community engagement, and integrity and transparency.

The discussion will also highlight the growing role of digital technologies in transforming public sector productivity, examining how these tools interact with workforce and management practices and how skills influence their successful adoption.

Meet our speakers and chair

Sarah Brierley (@sarahbrierley.bsky.social) is an Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on the state, corruption, and electoral politics in sub-Saharan Africa.

Zahid Hasnain is a Lead Governance Specialist who joined the World Bank in 2002. His areas of expertise are public administration reform; public sector employment, compensation, and management; digital governance; and political economy. He has led operational and analytical work across all World Bank regions.

Arturo Herrera Gutierrez is the World Bank Group Global Director for Governance, leading strategy and engagement on public institutions, public financial management and procurement, public administration and judicial reforms. He has held senior leadership roles both in the World Bank and in the Government of Mexico, including as Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Deputy Finance Minister, and Secretary of Finance of Mexico City.

Andrés Velasco (@AndresVelasco) is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE. In 2017-19 he was a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group. During 2015-16 he co-chaired the Global Panel on the Future of the Multilateral Lending Institutions. In 2013-16 he was a member of the Global Oceans Commission.

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