Lauren Kelly

Lauren Kelly oversees the thematic evaluations for the Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Global Practices of the World Bank. With over twenty years of international evaluation experience, Ms. Kelly has led multiple influential evaluations and managed several Board level engagements that have deepened development impact and contributed to evidence based decision and policy making within the World Bank Group. She is currently leading IEG’s evaluations of the World Bank’s Engagement in Situations of Conflict and the Natural Resource Degradation and Human Vulnerability Nexus. With a background in conflict management, she has also made significant contributions in the field of natural resources, land use, and conflict and has worked extensively on pastoral and farmer relations in Africa.