Sebastian-A Molineus

Sebastian-A Molineus is the Director, Strategy and Operations, in the Office of Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer. Prior to this, he was the Director of Strategy and Operations for the Global Infrastructure Vice Presidency.

Sebastian joined the International Finance Corporation in 2002 where he managed corporate governance reform programs in Russia and across the Middle East & North Africa region, based in Moscow and then Cairo. In 2008 he joined the World Bank in Washington as a Senior Operations Officer responsible for financial and private sector development and then became a Practice Manager for the Capital Markets Global Practice in 2012. He was appointed as Director to the Finance & Markets Global Practice in 2014 and in 2018 became the Director for the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice. From 2019 to 2023 Sebastian served as Country Director for the South Caucasus. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Sebastian worked at the OECD in the Financial, Fiscal, and Enterprise Affairs Division.

Sebastian holds an MBA from the HEC School of Management in France, and a Masters from the University of Passau’s School of Law in Germany. He is married with four children.