Bruno Laporte

Bruno Laporte is the Director of Thematic Knowledge and Learning at the World Bank Institute (WBI). He oversees five WBI Practices aimed at developing the capacity of client countries to access and use knowledge, and to design and develop realistic and achievable strategies to address the challenges they face. These Practices include: Climate Change, Growth and Competitiveness, Health Systems, Public-Private Partnerships, and Urban Development. 

Bruno joined the World Bank in March 1985 and has worked extensively on education, training, and employment issues in several regions of the world, notably Africa, the Middle East, and Europe and Central Asia. In 1997, he was appointed Sector Manager Education in the World Bank's Human Development Network, where he contributed to the launch of the Network. He pioneered the development of a very innovative global best practice system in education, organized around Thematic Groups and the Education Advisory Service.

In 2001, he transferred to WBI to lead the World Bank's corporate agenda on knowledge management, and provide advice and support to all organizational units across the Bank. In 2004 he became an Advisor in the Office of the Vice President of WBI, focusing on knowledge, learning, and quality assurance functions. In 2006, he was appointed Sector Manager for the Human Development Sectors at WBI. 

Prior to joining the Bank, he worked as an Advisor in the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Ivory Coast. He also worked in the private sector, with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in Paris.

Bruno holds degrees in Business Administration from France and in Education Administration and Planning from Harvard in the United States. He has a keen interest in contributing to the shift in development paradigm, based on multi-directional knowledge and learning flows, and aimed at building capacity and providing opportunities for countries to identify their own development solutions.