Aly Rahim

Aly Rahim is Global Lead for Citizen Engagement at the World Bank and heads CIVIC: The Civil Society and Social Innovation Alliance, the Bank’s new dedicated platform and facility for financing and scaling civil society and the social economy. Within CIVIC, he co-leads the GFF–CIVIC Platform with the Global Financing Facility, supporting youth- and community-led organizations to scale innovations in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition, and to ensure civic voice shapes resource mobilization and health priorities. Aly previously managed the Bank’s Social Development portfolio in West Africa, expanding it to $1.1 billion and advancing work on fragility, conflict, and climate resilience. As Assistant to the World Bank President, he coordinated major milestones such as the Paris COP21 climate commitments, the adoption of the Environmental and Social Framework, and the creation of global financing platforms for fragility and displacement. Earlier, he served as a Canadian diplomat on post-conflict reconstruction. Aly holds a Master’s from Georgetown University and a Bachelors from Dartmouth College.