Program Lead, innovation Labs, World Bank Group
Natalia Agapitova is Senior Program Officer at the World Bank Group where she leads the Social Enterprise Innovations program. Natalia has joined the World Bank Group in 2002 after spending three years working for a Russian investment company in the midst of the 1998 financial crisis, and working as a lecturer and researcher in Economics at the University of Poitiers, France. Natalia has first-hand experience in using science, technology and innovation as tools to bring inclusive and sustainable growth to the developing world. During her work at the World Bank, Natalia has played a key role in advising countries in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, South America and South Asia on how to build science, technology and innovation capacity. Natalia also worked on a broad range of issues related to capacity development and results agenda, and is one of the main authors of the Capacity Development and Results Framework that is used by World Bank teams and clients for design and M&E of capacity development programs. Natalia has published numerous papers on economic development. Natalia earned a Master (D.E.A.) and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Poitiers, and Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Perm State University (Russia).
