Aleem Walji, Innovation Practice Manager, World Bank

Aleem WaljiAleem joined the World Bank Institute as Practice Manager for Innovation in November 2009. Previously, he was Head of Global Development Initiatives at Google.org and Chief Executive Officer of the Aga Khan Foundation in Syria. Aleem was trained as a social anthropologist and urban planner at Emory University and MIT. For fun, Aleem flies kites with his 3 year old, plays tennis, and finds cool apps for his iPhone.

Aleem Walji on Development Marketplace
by Tom Grubisich from Climate Change Blog

Aleem Walji is the new Innovation Practice Manager at the World Bank Institute, which includes the secretariat for the Development Marketplace consortium and other innovation platforms. He is former Head of Global Development Initiatives at Google. The peripatetic Walji sat down for this mini-interview as DM2009 was winding up:

http://beta.worldbank.org/node/5146
http://blogs.worldbank.org/dmblog/team/aleem-walji

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