Marco Larizza is Lead Public Sector Specialist in the Western and Central Africa Region, Governance Global Practice at the World Bank. He joined the Bank as Young Professional in 2009. Since then, Marco has worked on over 30 lending operations and multiple analytical studies to support public sector management and institutional reforms in 20+ countries across West and Central Africa, East Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and East Asia and the Pacific. His most recent work focuses on GovTech, governance data analytics, governance of climate change, corporate governance of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and Country-Level Institutional Assessment and Review (CLIAR). Marco is a core author of the 2017 World Development Report on “Governance and the Law”. Marco held visiting scholar positions at the Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University and the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, University of Essex (UK).
He has published journal articles, book chapters and policy reports on comparative democratization, fiscal decentralization, institution-building in fragile states and the political economy of public sector reforms. Marco received his PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of Essex (UK), and an MA in Development Economics from the University of Bologna (Italy).