Annette Dixon

Annette Dixon was the World Bank Group’s Vice President for Human Resources until July 2022. Prior to this appointment, Annette was the World Bank’s Vice President, Human Development, overseeing the Global Practices for education; health, nutrition, and population; gender; and social protection and jobs, and the Gender Group. She was also the Bank’s Vice President for the South Asia Region, where she also oversaw lending operations and trust-funded projects worth more than $10 billion a year. Annette was a long-standing champion on gender issues. In South Asia, she set a target to deliver 100 percent gender-informed projects and interventions, going beyond the global corporate requirements. Under her leadership, the regional priority for South Asia was to support countries to improve Women’s Labor Force Participation.