Katherine Marshall
Katherine Marshall has worked for over three decades on international development, focusing on issues facing the world’s poorest countries. She is currently senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Visiting Professor and also serves as senior advisor for the World Bank.Her long career with the World Bank (1971-2006) involved a wide range of leadership assignments, many focused on Africa.From 2000-2006 her mandate covered ethics, values, and faith in development work, working as counselor to the World Bank’s President.She served as Country Director in the World Bank’s Africa region, first for the Sahel region, then Southern Africa, and was responsible for social policy and governance during the East Asia crisis years.She also worked extensively on Eastern and Southern Africa and Latin America.As a long time manager she was involved in many task forces and issues, focused inter alia on leadership issues, the role of women, conflict management, and values and ethics.
Ms. Marshall is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and the History Department.She serves on the Boards of several NGOs and on advisory groups, including IDEA (International Development Ethics Association) and CARE ’s Program Committee.She is a core group member of the Council of 100, an initiative of the World Economic Forum to advance understanding between the Islamic World and the West, also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Trustee of Princeton University.She has been closely engaged in the creation and development of the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD).She is a founding trustee of the Spirit of Fes Foundation and co-moderator of the Fes Forum, which is part of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.She speaks and publishes widely on issues for international development.Her publications include Mind, Heart and Soul in the Fight Against Poverty (World Bank, 2004).
Ms. Marshall’s daughter recently returned from serving in the Peace Corps in and works as a journalist; her son is a high school student in WashingtonDC.
Q&A with the Pew Forum, Religion and International Development