Justice Tei Mensah is a Senior Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist, Africa Region at the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was an Economist at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). His research, policy, and operational work cover a range of policy-relevant questions related to Digitization, Firms, and Infrastructure.
He leads the World Bank’s Think Africa Partnership (TAP) multi-donor trust fund. TAP is the Africa Regions’ flagship trust fund focused on supporting economic transformation and growth in the region through uptake of policy-relevant knowledge and data. He also manages the World Bank’s Chief Economist of Government (CEoG) network— a peer network of chief economic advisors to heads of states and prime ministers in over 40 African countries.
Justice holds a Ph.D in Economics from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Ghana, and a BA in Economics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.