Feature Team Members

Klaus Koch-Saldarriaga is a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist in the Business Ready unit. He joined the team in April 2014. Currently he supervises the Business Ready dialogue with Stakeholders, Communications and Experts Engagement teams and oversees the International Trade and Labor topic teams. He also coordinated the public consultation of the B-Ready Concept Note and led the B-Ready branding exercise. As a Regulatory Specialist he led the B-Ready Business Insolvency team, the Labor, and Resolving Insolvency indicators teams for the Doing Business project as well as leading the interactions with governments. He also worked as an analyst in the Citizen Engagement in Rulemaking project in the Global Indicators Department. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he was a diplomat at the Embassy of Colombia to the United States, where he as a counsellor worked on the approval of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and the bilateral Action Plan on Labor Rights. He also worked at the Business Association of Colombia (ANDI), and in the law firms Heuking Kühn in Germany and DG&A in Colombia. Klaus holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from UC Berkeley, attended Harvard University negotiation program and holds a law degree from Javeriana University in Colombia (graduated with honors). He speaks Spanish and German.