Scott White

Scott White is a senior consultant to the World Bank. He was a staff member of the Bank from 1984-2009, serving as Deputy General Counsel, Corporate, and as Acting Vice President and General Counsel for 18 months, between 2003-2009 before retiring. His principal areas of expertise were the Bank’s governance, anti-corruption, capital markets, derivatives, liquid asset management, pension investment operations and new financial products, as well as financial policy and risk management.
Mr. White led the legal work underpinning the creation of the first Global Bond, 1987-1989, new lending instruments with flexible currency and interest rate terms for Bank borrowers, 1990-2003, and the Prototype Carbon Fund, the Bank’s first public-private climate investment fund, 1998-1999. He served as counsel to the Audit and Budget Committees of the Board of Executive Directors of the Bank from 2000-2009 and to the Bank’s Pension Finance Committee from 1991-2000. He was Chief Counsel, Finance, from 1991-2002.
Prior to coming to the Bank, Mr. White was in private practice in Washington, D.C. and in New York. He graduated from Princeton in 1973, majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and from Columbia Law School in 1976.
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