Meet Aly Rahim, the new GPSA Program Manager

We are pleased to announce that Aly Rahim has been appointed the new Program Manager of the Global Partnership for Social Accountability effectively from August 22, 2022. He succeeds Jeff Thindwa, who is retiring from the World Bank Group from October 1. He also serves as the World Bank’s Global Lead for Social Accountability and Citizen Engagement.

Aly most recently served as Practice Manager for Social Sustainability and Inclusion for West Africa, where he and his team managed social impacts under the Bank’s new Environmental and Social Framework and established a $1 billion platform of multi-country community recovery projects to help stabilize conflict-affected zones across the subregion.

 Aly previously served as Assistant to the President of the World Bank Group where he coordinated a portfolio including CSO/stakeholder engagement, sustainable development, climate and conflict/fragility. Aly started his career at the World Bank in 2004, and held social development roles in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia leading projects, and advisory/analytic work with a focus on participatory, community-driven and inclusive development programs. He has also served in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, focusing on peacebuilding for Sudan and Afghanistan. Aly holds a Masters degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown and an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth in International Relations.

Please join us in welcoming Aly to his new role, and you can follow him on Twitter @aly_rahim!

The GPSA is grateful to Jeff for his leadership of the program and team since 2016, and for the significant contribution he has made to the social accountability field. We wish him well in his next phase and hope that he will continue to be engaged in this important field!