Tahseen Sayed, the World Bank country director for Caribbean countries, is visiting the Dominican Republic this week to discuss the World Bank’s support for the country.
She will be meeting with President Danilo Medina, Vice President Margarita Cedeño and the economic team of the Medina administration, head by Minister of Economy Isidoro Santana and Minister of Hacienda Donald Guerrero. During her visit, she will be accompanied by Alessandro Legrottaglie, World Bank representative in the Dominican Republic. On her agenda is a visit to the “Los Martínez” project in San José de Ocoa.
Sayed, who is originally from Pakistan, was World Bank representative for Albania and Nepal before being named to her current post. She has worked for more than 20 years as senior specialist in education and advisor on operations. She holds a master’s degree in law and diplomacy with a specialty in development studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
The two most recent World Bank projects in the Dominican Republic are the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Strengthening the Capacity to Produce and Use Quality Education Statistics. Both of these projects were approved in 2017.
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World Bank
11 July 2017
