Ms. Alma Nurshaikhova is a Senior Digital Specialist at the World Bank
based in Abuja, Nigeria. Alma leads the World Bank’s digital
development portfolio in Nigeria, which includes Nigeria Identity for
Development Project, Building Resilient Digital Infrastructure for
Development, and analytical work on digital economy and transformation.
Since joining the World Bank in 2014, Alma has worked on investment
operations, budget support programs, and analytical tasks on GovTECH,
public finance management, domestic revenue mobilization,
intergovernmental fiscal relations, and governance in service delivery
in Europe and Central Asia, East Asia and Pacific, East and West Africa.
Before joining the World Bank in 2014, Alma worked in her home country
Kazakhstan as Strategy Manager at the Sovereign Wealth Fund
“Samruk-Kazyna”, Director of Economic Analysis at the Center for
Trade Policy Development, and Human Development Coordinator at the
United Nations Development Program in Kazakhstan. Alma holds a Ph.D. in
International Relations from Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan, and
a master’s degree in development studies from the University of
Cambridge, United Kingdom. She also pursued a professional development
opportunity in the area of Economic Development at Michigan State
University, funded by the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship.