Florentina Mulaj

Florentina Mulaj is a Senior Program Manager, leading strategic partnerships and operations for the Development Impact Group in the Development Economics Vice Presidency. She is Head of the Development Impact Fund (DIF), a global multi-stakeholder partnership and scaling platform focused on embedding scientific evidence, real-time data, adaptive learning, and AI-enabled tools into development operations to strengthen policy design, implementation, and impact at scale. She builds coalitions and joint programs with governments, multilateral institutions, foundations, and private-sector partners to expand the reach of scientific evidence and frontier knowledge technologies in support of global development goals. These partnerships span IDA contributing countries and emerging economies, the European Commission, the United Nations, and leading global foundations and technology companies. She also supports the design and scale-up of institutional initiatives such as LEADS (Learn. Adapt. Scale.), which helps World Bank Group regions and institutions adopt evidence-based decision infrastructure more systematically across their operations.

Previously, Florentina worked on strategic partnerships and evaluation for social protection and labor programs at the World Bank, as well as on evaluations at the Global Environment Facility. She is a managing author and contributor to flagship publications on evidence-based policy, adaptive learning, and the use of scientific research to improve development policy and operations. She holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University, including a graduate certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), and a B.A. in International Relations and Economics from Saint Joseph’s University. She resides in Washington, D.C., with her family.