Skip to Main Navigation

Naomi Cooney


Naomi Cooney works in the Capital Markets and Investments Department of World Bank Treasury where she focuses on the design and issuance of structured bond transactions that mobilize private capital for sustainable development needs and help clients mitigate risks.

Naomi has been at the World Bank for ten years and leads the structuring and execution of innovative outcomes bonds that mobilize capital to directly support sustainable development projects and help clients manage risk. She also leads catastrophe bond transactions that provide World Bank member countries with insurance cover for natural disasters.

Naomi is a qualified actuary and prior to joining the World Bank in 2014 she spent ten years working in actuarial roles in Ireland with KPMG and Irish Life Assurance where she provided financial and actuarial advice to numerous insurance and reinsurance companies. She holds a Batchelor of Science in Financial and Actuarial Mathematics from Dublin City University, became a Fellow of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2007 and is currently participating in an MBA program at Imperial College London. Naomi is an Irish national and a proud mother of three young children.

Product expertise

Disaster Risk Management

Regional focus

All regions

Naomi Cooney
Tel :+1-202-473-4034
Email
LinkedIn