Heidi is a Senior Private Sector Specialist with the Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice of the World Bank Group. She co-manages the World Bank Group’s two flagship trade facilitation programs and provides technical support to a number of countries on border management processes. Heidi is a World Bank certified Gender Specialist and leads the institution’s efforts on trade facilitation and gender.
Since joining the World Bank in 2006, Heidi has helped create and lead a number of larger programs, including the joint WB-IFC Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector and Infrastructure, the Development Grant Facility, the Netherlands Partnership Program and Korea’s cross WB-IFC Partnership Facility. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, she worked with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UN Association and in the Norwegian private sector.
