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Vacancy Inspection Panel Member

​The appointment of Inspection Panel Member Zeinab Elbakri is due to end on August 31, 2017. Her departure will create a vacancy on the Panel. In accordance with the procedures approved by the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors (R2003-0043), a Selection Committee has been convened that consists of Executive Director Otaviano Canuto, chairman of the Bank’s Committee on Development Effectiveness; Executive Director Merza Hasan, dean of the Board; World Bank Chief Executive Officer Kristalina Georgieva; and Senior Vice President and General Counsel Sandie Okoro. The Committee is expected to convene in April and May to review, short list and interview candidates, with a view to presenting names of qualified candidates to World Bank Group President Jim Kim for his nomination to the Executive Directors in June. The position description can be foundhere. Anyone interested in applying is invited to do so no later than May 1, 2017. Please note that persons who have worked for the World Bank in any capacity in the last two years are not eligible to apply. Executive Directors are invited to nominate candidates and may do so by contacting Derek Wilkinson of Boyden Executive Search atWBGInspectionPanel@boyden.com with copy to Betsy Roach (Executive Search) atbroach@worldbankgroup.org