Amedee Prouvost Email Address

Senior Advisor

The World Bank Group, composed of five international organizations, provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries.

Amédée Prouvost was the Chief Operational Risk Officer of the World Bank where he led the institution’s risk governance and non-financial risk practice, including operational risk management, business continuity and crisis management, enterprise risk management and corporate insurance. He also served as the Secretary of the Operational Risk, Enterprise Risk, and Financial Risk Committees. During the last 18 months of his 37-year career with the World Bank Group (WBG), he was deeply involved in shaping the institution's emergency response to the COVID crisis and then designing its future "hybrid work model" with a view towards improving risk awareness, achieving better risk-informed decision-making, and leading to greater resilience at the individual, functional, and institutional levels. In earlier stages of his career, Mr. Prouvost held positions across the WBG’s finance and risk functions, including CFO of MIGA (political risk insurance), Manager for Development Finance, and Financial Representative in Europe. He also served in a variety of roles in the treasury function and as Senior Adviser to three WBG CFOs. He began his professional career at Banque Paribas (now BNP Paribas) and served as a Reserve Officer with the French Navy. Following his retirement from the World Bank, he joined Chapelle Consulting (now BDO Chapelle) and worked with several multilateral clients on risk governance, culture, and change management issues — drawing on his experience as a practitioner in a global institution and a complex multicultural environment. He also serves as a Board Member and Chair of the Governance Committee of World Connect Inc. (a NY-based grant-making NGO supporting community-led development in Africa), as President of the Board of Alliance Française of Washington DC (the language school and cultural center which proudly calls itself “the French heartbeat in the Nation’s capital”), as a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Global Business School Network, and as a faculty member for the DCRO Risk Governance Institute. Mr. Prouvost holds an MBA (with distinction) from the Wharton School, a Master’s degree in economics and statistics from ENSAE Paris (one of the French “grandes écoles”), and a Master of Advanced Studies in economics and finance from Paris Dauphine-PSL University.