Neelam Verjee has worked for the Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Group of the World Bank since December 2013. She has a Masters in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she focused on security studies and conflict, and a BSc in Social Policy and Government from the London School of Economics. Previously, she worked as programs manager at Sisi Ni Amani, an NGO that explored technology as a tool for peacebuilding, and on capacity building projects at the World Policy Institute. Neelam Verjee has published extensively as a journalist, having spent five years as a business reporter and features writer for The Times newspaper in London, as well as having worked for The Wall Street Journal’s Mint newspaper in Mumbai, India. She is also a contributor to Quartz, the online global news publication of Atlantic Media.