Bucharest Leaders’ Summit: The Highway to Success Speakers 10 November

Anna Akhalkatsi is the World Bank Country Manager for Romania and Hungary as of July 1, 2021. She
oversees the World Bank’s program and leads policy dialogue with government counterparts, private
sector, civil society and other relevant constituencies in the two countries.
A Georgian national, Ms. Akhalkatsi first joined the World Bank in 1999 as an economist in Tbilisi,
Georgia. She then became the country representative for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in
Georgia before moving to Washington D.C., where she worked on strategy, small business finance and
firm capability, value chains and agribusiness issues. Subsequently, Ms. Akhalkatsi acted as Regional
Lead for IFC’s Cross-Cutting Advisory Solutions in the region of Latin America and Caribbean. Prior to
taking up her new post in Romania she was the World Bank Country Manager for Moldova.