Valentina Saltane

Valentina Saltane manages the Regulatory Efficiency unit. Previously, she served as a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist in DECIG, where she held a supervisory role on the Business Ready (B-READY) project. Over the past decade, Valentina has led multiple projects at the World Bank and IFC, including Actionable Regulatory Indicators in the European Union, Migration and the Law, Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance, Doing Business in Agriculture, the Open Government Project, Market Assessments under AIMM, and Capital Markets Indicators. She has also coauthored several publications, including three Access to Finance reports, an Open Government Partnership report, Sweden’s Business Climate report, the Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy report series, and seven research papers on access to finance, business regulation, and capital markets. Before joining the World Bank Group, she worked at the Law and Economic Consulting Group (LECG) in New York City and previously served as a program coordinator at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC. Valentina holds a BA in economic development and international studies from Colby College and an MPA with a concentration in economic development from the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. She is fluent in Latvian, Russian, and Spanish; proficient in French and German; and is studying Arabic.