Rajni Bajpai is a Lead Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank. In her current assignment, she manages the dialogue on Public Sector issues with the government and the Public Sector Performance outbound knowledge program at the World Bank’s Global Knowledge and Research Hub in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
With 25 years of experience in development, Rajni has worked on improving public sector performance, including issues of service delivery, local governance, budgetary and fiscal reforms, monitoring and evaluation, civil service, and public administration reform. Prior to relocating to Malaysia, she worked extensively with sub-national governments in South Asia. In her prior assignment she was the Program Leader for Economic Growth Finance and Institutions Practice Group in India. She led the dialogue at the highest levels of government and was responsible for coordinating the work of several teams on the ground.
Rajni is from India and speaks English and Hindi fluently. She holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and an MBA in Finance.