Shubham Chaudhuri is the Director of the Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV) Group at the World Bank, reporting to the Managing Director of Operations. He started in this role on January 2, 2025. Prior to assuming this position, Shubham served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Nigeria, based in Abuja, from 2019 to 2024, and for Afghanistan, based in Kabul, from 2016 to 2019.
The FCV Group, led by Shubham, provides strategic guidance, knowledge, and operational support on the FCV agenda to the country teams and global and corporate units under the World Bank Group's new roadmap and is leading the development of a new group-wide FCV strategy, working in close coordination with all parts of the World Bank Group. Shubham and his team also represent the World Bank in external FCV fora and manage the relationships with the World Bank’s shareholders and other stakeholders on FCV issues.
Shubham, an Indian-born US national, joined the World Bank in 2004. He worked initially on China and regional policy issues based out of Washington before moving to Jakarta where he spent five years leading the overall economic policy dialogue, advisory and development policy lending work of the World Bank in Indonesia. He then returned to Washington for four years, where he was first, the Sector Manager for the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department for East Asia and the Pacific and then the South Asia Practice Manager for the World Bank’s Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management Global Practice, overseeing the macro-fiscal and economic policy-related teams and work of the World Bank in the South Asia region.
Before joining the World Bank, Shubham spent a decade at Columbia University in New York, where he was an economics professor and Director of the Program in Economic and Political Development. His research, published in some of the top economics journals spanned a number of areas within development economics, from poverty and vulnerability to trade and investment climate to participatory budgeting and fiscal decentralization. Shubham obtained his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in economics.