Aly Zulficar Rahim

Program Manager

Aly Rahim leads CIVIC: The Civil Society and Social Innovation Alliance at the World Bank, where he guides a global team advancing civic participation, social innovation, and systems change. From scaling community-led solutions to embedding citizen voice in development finance, Aly leads on renewing how the Bank partners with civil society to build more just, accountable, and resilient development systems.

Aly previously served as Practice Manager for Social Sustainability and Inclusion in West Africa, where he led transformative programs in climate resilience, conflict stabilization, and inclusion across 17 countries, and earlier as Assistant to the President of the World Bank Group, where he supported the COP21 Paris Climate commitments, the Environmental and Social Framework, and financing innovation for forced displacement.

Aly began his career as a Canadian Foreign Service Officer focused on post-conflict reconstruction in Sudan and Afghanistan. He holds a Master’s in International Security from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Bachelor’s in Government and International Relations from Dartmouth College. The best thing he’s ever made is his father’s Ugandan kuku paka—and he loves how a simple coconut chicken curry can tell his family’s story.

Mariana T. Felicio

Senior Social Development Specialist

Mariana T. Felicio is a Senior Social Development Specialist at the World Bank, with over twenty years of experience advancing civic engagement, social inclusion, and coalition building across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa.

She has led operations on social integration, indigenous and afro-descendant inclusion, migration impacts, and gender-based violence prevention, always centering communities as catalysts for change. Mariana also helped launch the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in the Arab World during the Arab Spring, driving citizen voice into policy dialogue and accountability reforms.

Her work spans large community-driven development programs in Nigeria, Angola, Ecuador, and Colombia, and she is accredited in the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework (ESF). Prior to joining the Bank, she worked with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Ford Foundation on strengthening civil society networks.

An Argentine, Portuguese, and U.S. citizen, she holds a Master’s in Development Management and Public Policy from Georgetown University, a Post-Graduate degree on MERCOSUR integration from the University of Buenos Aires, and a Bachelor’s in International Relations and Economics from Wellesley College.