Records of Individual Staff Members
A number of individuals accumulated bodies of records from various offices in which they served. When these individuals retired or resigned from the Bank, these records were transferred to the Archives. Because the records cover the individual...
Individual Staff Members
Records of the Africa Regional Vice Presidency
The countries included in the Africa region (AFR) have remained constant throughout its history, with the exception being the removal of northern African countries (Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco) into the Europe and Middle East Depar...
Africa Regional Vice Presidency
Records of the Office of External Relations
Records in this fonds relate to the functions of the external relations complex as described in the Administrative History field above. In addition, records created and received by EXT Vice Presidencies are also included. Note that, periodically, ...
External Relations Vice Presidency and reporting units
Records of Private Sector Development Sector
The fonds primarily consists of records related to projects and special studies performed by the Private Sector Finance and Advisory Services Group (CFSPS) located in the Co-financing and Financial Advisory Services Vice Presidency (CFS) from 1989...
Private Sector Development Sector
Records of the Gender and Development Sector
The fonds primarily consists of records related to the Adviser on Women in Development (WID) from the years 1977 to 1987. Subject files kept by WID Advisers Gloria Scott and Barbara Herz are included for the years 1977 to 1986, and illustrate the ...
Gender and Development
Records of the Environmentally Sustainable Development Vice Presidency
The fonds consists of chronological files created by ESDVP. Separate chronological files were created for incoming and outgoing correspondence as well as for incoming faxes. Correspondence relates to: the research and writing of departmental revie...
Environmentally Sustainable Development Vice Presidency
A number of individuals have donated to the World Bank Group Archives small quantities of material about the history of the Bank. All of the donations in this fonds are less than four inches in size (the size of a standard archival box). For conve...
Donated Materials Collection
Records of the Office of Operations Evaluation
Fonds consists of records related to activities undertaken by the Operations Evaluation Department in support of its function as the Bank's independent operations evaluator. The majority of the records in this fonds are working files for proj...
Office of Operations Evaluation
Records of General Vice Presidents and Managing Directors
The records of the era of the general vice presidents are fragmentary. A few records of a Middle East and North African trip by Robert L. Garner exist, as does a file on a meeting in Jogjakarta attended by Mohamed Shoaib. The files of Sir Denis Ri...
General Vice Presidents and Managing Directors
Personal papers of Irving S. Friedman
This fonds contains records related to Friedman's time as Economic Adviser to the President. The majority of the records are correspondence related to Friedman's activities as Economic Adviser. Memoranda to and speeches for Bank Presiden...
Friedman, Irving S.
Records of the Industry Development Sector
These files, created by the Industry Development Division of the Industry Department, include a large quantity of records of two Banks studies: the 1975 survey of Korean exporting firms and a study of the acquisition of technology capabilities of ...
Industry Development Sector
Joint Bank-Fund Library Collection on Presidents of the World Bank
Clippings, speeches, press releases, biographical information, and occasional copies of letters and memoranda by and about Bank Presidents Eugene Meyer, John J. McCloy, George D. Woods, Robert S. McNamara, A.W. Clausen, and Barber C. Conable, Jr. ...
Joint Bank-Fund Library Collection on Presidents of the World Bank
Personal papers of Martin M. Rosen
The papers consist principally of photographs from Martin Rosen's period at the World Bank. The photographs are very largely ceremonial: Rosen at the ceremony when a country joins International Finance Corporation; Rosen at an annual meeting;...
Rosen, Martin M.
Records of the Water Development Sector
The fonds consists of a diverse group of records that reflect the various activities of the water function in the World Bank. The fonds includes: internal and external correspondence, including letters, memoranda, and telexes; project files; secto...
Water Development Sector
Records of the Transport Development Sector
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the transport sector in the World Bank. The fonds includes: research materials and background documentation; operational support and project-related records; seminar, conference ...
Transport Development Sector
Records of the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Vice Presidency
This fonds consists of records created by the departments and vice presidencies that were responsible for World Bank operations in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Country operational recordsThe majority of the records of this fonds ar...
Latin America and Caribbean Regional Vice Presidency
Personal Papers of Frank K. Vita
This fonds contains records that span Frank Vita's entire twenty-three year career at the World Bank Group as well as time spent at Arthur Andersen LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers in the 1990s. Records relate to his involvement in lending oper...
Vita, Frank K.
Records of the Private Sector Development and Infrastructure Vice Presidency
The fonds includes budget, business plan, and work program records from the Private Sector Development Department (PSD) units mapped into PSIVP in 1999, and similar records for PSD's successor of the Private Sector Advisory Services (PSAS).
Private Sector Development and Infrastructure Vice Presidency
Personal papers of Aura Garcia de Truslow
This fonds contains records that span Aura Garcia de Truslow's entire career with the World Bank Group. Records relate to her work as an Economist and Senior Projects Officer in the Latin America and Caribbean Vice Presidency (LCNVP, LACVP). ...
Garcia de Truslow, Aura
Records of the Chief Financial Officer
The fonds includes records of the Vice President of Finance (VPF), the Senior Vice President of Finance (SVPFI/FINSV), and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), all of which were responsible for the overall management of the Finance Complex of the Ba...
Chief Financial Officer
Records of the Public Sector Management and Governance Sector
The fonds includes records from research, advising, and policy development sector units oriented towards public sector management and governance functions of the World Bank, and does not include records from technical assistance oriented Regional ...
Public Sector Management and Governance Sector
Records of the Environment Sector
The fonds consists of records that reflect the various activities of the environment sector in the World Bank. The majority of the records in this fonds were created or received by the Environment Department's Global Environment Unit (ENVGC) ...
Environment Sector
Records of the Development Committee
The Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing countries, usually known as the Development Committee, is an advisory body only. The p...
Development Committee
Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards
The fonds contains the records of two task forces: the Economic Development Institute (EDI) Task Force and the Task Force on Local Cost Financing Under Adjustment Operations. The records of the secretariat responsible for the Bank's activitie...
Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards
Records of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
The records in this series reflect the two principal activities of the Consultative Group: funding and evaluating the international institutes. The Group's activity is carried out through regular informal contacts, through consultation at yea...
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Records of the Financial Sector Development Sector
The fonds consists primarily of Economic and Sector Work (ESW) records produced by the various financial sector development department, division, and unit incarnations, including: the Financial Development Unit (INDFD) and the Financial Developmen...
Financial Sector Development Sector
Records of the Finance, Private Sector Development, and Infrastructure Network
The fonds consist of budget and work program records related to the PSD department of FPSI.
Finance, Private Sector Development, and Infrastructure Network
Personal Papers of Orvis A. Schmidt
The papers cover the period of Schmidt's service with the US Treasury and include his files on his dissertation. Both the Treasury and the dissertation materials include subject files; some topics overlap; all concern Brazil exclusively. The ...
Schmidt, Orvis A.
Personal papers of William Diamond
Throughout his career, Diamond kept a personal file in chronological order. Sometimes this file was primarily copies of the messages he sent, but at other times he included copies of incoming messages and copies of correspondence that had been sen...
Diamond, William
Records of the Global Environment Facility
The fonds consists of records that relate to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat's various activities. The majority of the fonds consists of GEF project files. Project types include the Small Grants Programme, Enabling Activitie...
Global Environment Facility
Personal Papers of John Nellis
This fonds contains records related to John Nellis's work in the Public Sector Management and Private Sector Development Division (CECPS) located in the Country Economics Department (CEC) of the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC). Th...
Nellis, John