Johannes Linn
Resident Senior Scholar, Emerging Markets Forum
Johannes F. Linn is Resident Senior Scholar at the Emerging Markets Forum in Washington, D.C., Senior Advisor at the Results for Development Institute, Senior Research Fellow at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation and Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Since October 2020, he is Global Facilitator for the newly to be established Systematic Observations Financing Facility of the World Meteorological Organization. In 2019, he served as the Global Facilitator and Chair of the first replenishment of the Green Climate Fund. In 2011, 2014 and 2017, respectively, he was the chair for the 9th, 10th and 11th Replenishment Consultations of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). From 2005-2010 he served Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. Prior to joining Brookings in 2003, he worked for three decades at the World Bank in various capacities, including as the Bank’s Vice President for Financial Policy and Resource Mobilization (1991-1995) and Vice President for Europe and Central Asia (1996-2003). Johannes Linn has published extensively on the development and global governance issues, including Central Asia and the Caucasus: At the Crossroads of Eurasia in the 21st Century (co-editor; Sage, 2011), Getting to Scale: How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People (co-editor; Brookings Press 2013) and Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries (co-editor; Lincoln Institute of Land Policy). He was co-editor for Kazakhstan 2050: Toward a Modern Society for All (Oxford University Press, 2014), for Central Asia 2050 (Sage, 2017) and for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (Sage, 2019). His current research interests are in the areas of development effectiveness (with a special focus on scaling up successful development interventions), on global governance reform, and on regional cooperation (with a special focus on Central Asia). Mr. Linn holds a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University (1968) and a doctorate in economics from Cornell University (1973).
Areas of Expertise:
Development effectiveness (evaluation, scaling up)
Urban development and finance
Global governance reform
Regional cooperation
Central Asian economic and social development
Facilitation and moderation of professional events
Past Experience:
World Bank – Bank’s Vice President for Financial Policy and Resource Mobilization (1991-1995) and Vice President for Europe and Central Asia (1996-2003)
Director, Wolfensohn Center for Development, The Brookings Institution (2005-2010)
Key Advisory Engagements
AsDB
AfDB
Green Climate Fund
GIZ
International Fund for Agricultural Development
JICA
UNDP
World Bank
World Meteorological Organization
Heifer International
Save the Children US
Brookings Institution
Emerging Markets Institute
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Results for Development Institute