Johannes F. Linn

Johannes F. Linn is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Distinguished Resident Scholar at the Emerging Markets Forum in Washington, D.C., a Senior Fellow at the Results for Development Institute, and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the international Scaling Community of Practice, which has over 2,000 participants. He currently serves as a Global Facilitator for setting up and funding the Systematic Observations Financing Facility of the World Meteorological Organization. In 2011, 2014, and 2017 he chaired replenishment consultations of the International Fund for Agricultural Development and, in 2019, the first replenishment of the Green Climate Fund. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. During that time, he also served as Special Advisor to the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Forum (CAREC). Prior to joining Brookings in 2003, he worked for three decades at the World Bank, including as the Bank’s Vice President for Financial Policy and Resource Mobilization and as Vice President for Europe and Central Asia. Johannes was the principal author of the UNDP’s Central Asia Human Development Report 2005 and a co-editor and contributor to Kazakhstan 2050 (Oxford 2014), Central Asia 2050 (Sage 2017), and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Potential Transformation of Central Asia and the South Caucasus (Sage 2019). He currently works with ADB on a scoping study for regional climate action in greater Central Asia.