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Early career opportunities at the World Bank Group

May 6, 2022

Zoom and Facebook Live @WorldBankPhilippines

What are the Early Career Opportunities at the World Bank Group?

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The World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. WBG staff work with governments, civil society groups, the private sector and others in developing countries around the world, in all areas of international development and finance, from policy and strategic advice to the identification, preparation, appraisal and supervision of development projects.
Together with the University of the Philippines Los Baños, we invite students and alumni to join a virtual information session on early career recruitment programs, including the recently integrated Young Professionals Program (WBG YPP), now representing the World Bank, IFC and MIGA. The event will also cover internships, the Junior Professional Associates Program (JPA) and will be followed by a Q&A.
Highly motivated students and alumni from various fields of study relevant to international development and finance are strongly encouraged to attend.
To view WBG YPP Business Areas click here
WBG staff are recruited from around the world, with preference to nationals of WBG member countries and countries of operations. We welcome all qualified individuals, from diverse professional, academic and cultural backgrounds. Women and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to attend.
Join the event on Zoom or Facebook Live @WorldBankPhilippines.

Time	Agenda
9:00	Opening Remarks Dina Umali-Deininger Agriculture & Food Practice Manager, World Bank
9:05	Welcome Remarks Chancellor Jose D. Camacho Jr. University of the Philippines Los Baños
9:10	Presentation: World Bank Group Young Professionals Program Iman Kedir Communications & Outreach Specialist, World Bank Group
9:30	Experiences of YPP Alumni Yoonhee Kim Sector Leader, Sustainable Development for China, Mongolia and Korea, World Bank Felipe Dizon Senior Economist, Agriculture & Food Practice, World Bank
9:50	Q&A (20 minutes) Moderator: Jennifer Sunga-Amparo Assistant Vice Chancellor for Administration University of the Philippines Los Baños
10:10	Closing Remarks Ricardo M. Sandalo Dean, College of Human Ecology University of the Philippines Los Baños

Jose V. Camacho Jr., Ph.D.

Chancellor, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Dr. Jose V. Camacho Jr. is the 10th chancellor of UPLB. Dr. Camacho was the dean of the Graduate School from February 2012 to October 31 2020, and a professor of economics at the College of Economics and Management (CEM). His vision-mission statement is entitled “Future-Proofing UPLB.” Dr. Camacho specified the need to future-proof UPLB’s human resources, lifelong learning and instruction system, research and innovation system, commitment to public good and social welfare, and global engagement. Dr. Camacho first served as the associate dean and chair of academic programs and curriculum of CEM (2007-2012), and chair of the Department of Economics (2001-2004). He also serves as the chair of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on Graduate Education, and co-chair of the TWG for the Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program, both of the Commission on Higher Education. Dr. Camacho finished in 2007 his Doctor of Economics, with specialization in Economics of Education, Labor, and Human Resource Economics at Kyoto University, Japan. He holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Erasmus University International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from UPLB.

Dina Umali-Deininger, Ph.D.

Agriculture and Food Practice Manager for the East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
Dina manages analytical services and a lending portfolio totaling $3.8 billion, which focus on promoting climate smart agriculture, linking smallholder farmers to markets, agriculture value chain development, and enhancing rural livelihoods and jobs. She formerly served as the Agriculture Practice Manager in Central and Eastern Africa, Water Practice Manager in Europe and Central Asia, and Country Sector Coordinator in the World Bank New Delhi office, overseeing the World Bank's agriculture and rural development program in India. She has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Agribusiness Management from the University of the Philippines.

Iman Kedir

Communications & Outreach Specialist
Communications & Outreach Specialist for the World Bank Group’s Youth Programs focusing on employer branding and outreach for early career recruitment programs, including the Young Professionals Program. She has close to 15 years of experience working for international brands and organizations.

Yoonhee Kim

Sector Leader for Sustainable Development (SD) in China, Mongolia and Korea, World Bank
Based in Beijing, China, Yoonhee Kim coordinates the SD programs consisting of environment, natural resources and blue economy, water, social sustainability and inclusion, urban, resilience and land, and agriculture and food. Prior to assuming the role of SD Sector Leader in July 2020, she worked more than 13 years at the Bank as an urban specialist in a number of countries in South Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean Regions, where she led multi-sectoral and complex lending operations and policy dialogue on urban housing, local government support, and green and sustainable municipal infrastructure. She also led and participated in a number of publications on urbanization review, housing policy and municipal service delivery. Yoonhee has a B.A. in political science from Yonsei University, Korea, and graduate degrees in international economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS and in urban economics and policy from the University of Maryland.

Felipe Dizon

Senior Economist in the Global Engagement Unit of the Agriculture and Food Practice, World Bank
Felipe joined the World Bank in 2016 as a Young Professional, and is currently Senior Economist in the Global Engagement Unit of the Agriculture and Food Practice, with a focus on sustainable and healthy diets in food systems. He previously worked on West Africa, and then on South Asia in operations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and India. Prior to the joining the Bank, Felipe led research projects in Guatemala, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Uganda, and Zambia on a range of development topics. He has a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California- Davis, an MA in Development Economics from the University of San Francisco, and a BA in Economics from De La Salle University- Manila.

Ricardo "Riki" Sandalo, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Before joining CHE as faculty, Dr. Ricardo “Riki” Sandalo was a development worker and a human ecology practitioner in Palawan and Batangas for almost three decades, in both government and the non-government organizations, with communities from ridge-to-reef. After graduating in BSc Human Ecology, and a short stint with the Human Settlements Development Corporation, he was in 1981, employed by the Palawan Integrated Area Development Project where he later became the National Co-Director of the Palawan Tropical Forestry Protection Programme of the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development. He became Manager (2000-2009) of the Balayan Bay Integrated Coastal Management Project of the Kabang Kalikasan ng Pilipinas (aka World Wide Fund for Nature – Philippines). He was also Programme Manager of the UN-GOP Joint Programme on Strengthening the Philippines’ Institutional Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change supported by the Millennium Development Goal Fund (MDG-F). Dr. Sandalo was also Consultant of the UN-FAO on Integrating Nutrition Consideration in Agriculture and Rural Development Projects in Ethiopia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. He completed his MA in Urban and Regional Planning in the UP Diliman School of Urban and Regional Planning in 1987, and his PhD in Development Studies in UP Los Baños (2020).

Jennifer Marie Amparo, Ph.D.

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Administration, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Dr. Jennifer Marie S. Amparo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Development Services, CHE, UPLB – teaching since 2001. Currently she is the Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor for Administration and Director of the Business Affairs Office. She has a PhD in Human Ecology from the Australian National University under the Australia Awards Scholarship. Her thesis is "Dynamics of Social-ecological Traps: The Case of Small-scale fishers in the Philippines". She also is a MA Sociology graduate from UP Diliman and BS Human Ecology major in Social Technology alumnae (cum laude). Her research interest is on systems thinking, dynamics of food systems and nature-based livelihoods, health and pollution, and gendered impacts of development programs. She has worked in Blacksmith Institute as Country Coordinator working on remediation projects in the Philippines (2009-2012) and as a Project Officer of the Non-formal Education Accreditation and Equivalency Project of the Philippine NGO Council on Health, Population, and Welfare (PNGOC) (1998-2001). She has served as Project Leader in a number of national and regional projects such funded by SEARCA (Dynamics of Smallholder Farmers in the Philippines), DFAT and UNICEF (Women Economic Empowerment and Leadership of women and girl-children beneficiaries of 4Ps), including ADB and WB (Global Inventory Project and Rehabilitation of the MMO River System). She has also served as trainor and facilitator in a number of gender-related trainings and workshops organized by national, regional and local organizations and agencies.