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Wolfgang Fengler is the World Bank’s Lead Economist in Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation. A native German, Fengler has been a staff member of the World Bank for 20 years, during which he lived in four continents: First in North America working at the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington DC, then in Asia as a Senior Economist in the Indonesia office, followed by Africa, where he served as the World Bank’s Lead Economist in the Nairobi office. At the end of 2013, Fengler moved to Europe as part of the senior team of the World Bank’s new hub in Vienna where he has been Lead Economist for Europe and Central Asia. He also spoke at TEDx Vienna and launched population.io (endorsed by Bill Gates) as well as worldpoverty.io, two real-time big data models. The German weekly DER SPIEGEL called him a "big data virtuoso".

Pre-World Bank career
Prior to joining the World Bank, he set up Africa Consulting, LLC, and was a Fellow at the Research Institute for International Relations.

Education
Fengler gained a PhD from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and has attended a number of executive programs in the USA, including Harvard University.

Publications
Fengler published extensively on social and economic issues. He also co-authored "Delivering Aid Differently" (with Homi Kharas, Brookings) and "Africa’s Economic Boom" (with Shanta Devarajan, Foreign Affairs). He also co-manages the Future Development blog at Brookings. Other notable publications and blogs are listed belo


 * 1) Tracking Global Poverty in Real Time with a World Poverty Clock (w. Jesus Crespo et al.), Palgrave Macmillan (NATURE), March 2018
 * 2) Personalizing data for development, in: Financial Times, BeyondBrics, September 2015 (w. Homi Kharas)
 * 3) Africa's Economic Boom - Why the Pessimists and the Optimists Are Both Right, (with Shanta Devarajan), in: Foreign Affairs, May 2013
 * 4) Scaling up through disruptive business models: The inside story of mobile money in Kenya (with Pauline Vaughn and Michael Joseph), in: Getting to Scale (edited by Homi Kharas), Brookings, April 2013
 * 5) Has Africa outgrown Aid, in: Council of Foreign Relations, January 2013 [also published in Africa Can, of the Bank’s most viewed blogs in 2013]
 * 6) Kenya At Work – Energizing the Economy and Creating Jobs, Kenya Economic Update, World Bank, December 2012 [Kenya Economic Update series received VPU award]
 * 7) Devolution without Disruption – Pathways for a successful New Kenya, World Bank, October 2012 [considered best-practice by PREM network]
 * 8) The regional effects of Indonesia’s oil and gas policy (with Dian Agustina and Guenther Schulze), Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (Impact Factor of 1.448), November 2012
 * 9) Is Africa’s Recent Grow Sustainable (with Shanta Devarajan), Institut Français des Relations Internationales, October 2012
 * 10) Delivering Aid Differently – Lessons from the Field (with Homi Kharas), Brookings, Washington, DC 2011
 * 11) Spending for Development – Making the Most of Indonesia’s New Opportunities, Indonesia Public Expenditure Review, World Bank, Washington, DC 2008
 * 12) Managing Indonesia’s Rapid Decentralization: Achievements and Challenges (with Bert Hofman) in: Decentralization and Development in Asia  (edited by Roy Bahl / Shinichi Ichimura)  Scientific press, Singapore 2008
 * 13) Tracking Financial Flows after Disasters – Establishing a Reconstruction Expenditure Tracking Methodology (RETAM); PREM-Note 114, World Bank, September 2007.
 * 14) Various Op Eds in leading German language newspapers, especially Süddeutsche Zeitung, Handelsblatt and NZZ on Development policy and innovation, 2012-2016

Private Life
Wolfgang Fengler is married to Petra Fengler. They have three children together. Wolfgang loves travelling and sports, especially football. He was the football commissioner at the International School of Kenya and organized the “Nairobi Mini World Cup”, one of Kenya’s largest football tournaments for kids.