Tapiwa Sikipa
Senior Portfolio Manager
World Bank
The World Bank Treasury performs treasury functions for the IBRD and for other members of the World Bank Group. Its activities are organized and grouped along three segments: asset management, banking and debt management, and capital markets services.
Treasury has been a large and significant player in the international financial markets for more
than fifty years and has achieved a global reputation as aprudent and innovative borrower,
investor and risk manager. Treasury is responsible for: (i) managing more than $130 billion in
assets for the World Bank and other official-sector investors; (ii) leading the World Bank’s
financing program in international and domestic bond and derivatives markets; (iii) conducting
asset and liability management for the World Bank’s balance sheet; (iv) overseeing the development and outreach related to the financing and hedging products the Bank provides for its developing-country clients; and (v) collaborating with the World Bank member countries to help build their capacity.
