Saroj Kumar Jha
Saroj Kumar Jha is the World Bank Regional Director for Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Jordan and Syria, since July 2017. Before his appointment, Saroj was Senior Director of the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Global Practice at the World Bank Group. Earlier, he was the Bank’s Regional Director for Central Asia and also served as the Global Manager for the Disaster Risk Management Practice and as Head of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), which he founded in 2006.