Dr. Sanjay Pradhan is CEO of the Open Government Partnership, instituted by U.S. President Obama and Brazilian President Rousseff with six Heads of State at the UN General Assembly in 2011. Prior to this role, Dr. Pradhan served as the Vice President of the World Bank Institute and as Director of Public Sector Governance for the World Bank. Dr. Pradhan was responsible for providing strategic direction to the World Bank’s global work on improving public sector governance and combating corruption. Dr. Pradhan received both his Bachelor’s degree (1982) and his PhD (1988) from Harvard University.
