Benjamin Herzberg

Benjamin Herzberg was born and raised in Paris, France. He currently is Program Lead, Open Private Sector at the World Bank in Washington DC, USA, where he works on poverty reduction through private sector engagement for good governance, public-private dialogue and open data. Since joining the World Bank in 2004, he led or participated to interventions on investment climate reform, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and competitiveness in about 30 countries. Beforehand, he worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Office of the High Representative on participatory reform making and at the OSCE on stimulating the SME sector. Previously he worked in the private sector in France (banking), Israel (biotechnology) and the USA (high-technology). Herzberg holds a post-graduate degree in Geography and Environment from the Université des Sciences et Techniques, and a Suma Cum Laude Master's degree in Geography from the Université de la Sorbonne, France. Aside from his professional interests, Herzberg has been involved with graphic arts, having been a publisher, authored children books, worked on educational comics, and been the collaborator of graphic novelist Will Eisner on his books Fagin The Jew and The Plot. Herzberg has also an amateur career in singing and songwriting, occasionally performing as Le Benj. His wife is American, and is a judicial reform specialist working on justice for the poor. They have two children and live in Cleveland Park, Washington, DC.