My professional affiliation with the World Bank has started a day before - from 20 Dec'07. As a part of the Humphrey program, all fellows are required to do a 6 week long professional affiliation with any org/institution based in USA. It may be local or non-local in respect to the host campuses. I chose doing with the World Bank - a non-local one.
Even though some hassles and excess costs involved (like getting a short rem accomodation, moving to a new place and so on) with a non-local affiliation, choice of World Bank is great, I think. Also to get an offer from them is tougher. But I pushed hard and did manage to get that. Because I think my exposure to WB activities on trade matters would help me and also Bangladesh in future. Because WB policy decisions influence BD a lot.
So far I worked in WB for just 2 days. Working in the PREM (Poverty Reduction & Economic magement) unit of South Asia Region. My superviser is Dr. Sandeep Mahajan who looks after some aspects of trade related matters of BD with WB.
Despite the fact that WB offices in DC area are scattered in several buildings, major one is the main building. Most activities are in the main building. It's a nice, modern and very spacious building . Great work environment for an institution like WB, as expected. But the Cafeteria & Dining related facilities I'm most impressed with. Different type of food you can choose- African, European, South Asian & so on. Dining hall is so big & so many people busy with eating & talking to their table mates (it's more like one to one or one to few business meetings). I'm informed that at WB head office, almost 10000 people work. In different floors Christmas trees are decorated. But the one at Lobby area is so big & small flags of all member countries are placed on the tree there.
Even though some hassles and excess costs involved (like getting a short rem accomodation, moving to a new place and so on) with a non-local affiliation, choice of World Bank is great, I think. Also to get an offer from them is tougher. But I pushed hard and did manage to get that. Because I think my exposure to WB activities on trade matters would help me and also Bangladesh in future. Because WB policy decisions influence BD a lot.
So far I worked in WB for just 2 days. Working in the PREM (Poverty Reduction & Economic magement) unit of South Asia Region. My superviser is Dr. Sandeep Mahajan who looks after some aspects of trade related matters of BD with WB.
Despite the fact that WB offices in DC area are scattered in several buildings, major one is the main building. Most activities are in the main building. It's a nice, modern and very spacious building . Great work environment for an institution like WB, as expected. But the Cafeteria & Dining related facilities I'm most impressed with. Different type of food you can choose- African, European, South Asian & so on. Dining hall is so big & so many people busy with eating & talking to their table mates (it's more like one to one or one to few business meetings). I'm informed that at WB head office, almost 10000 people work. In different floors Christmas trees are decorated. But the one at Lobby area is so big & small flags of all member countries are placed on the tree there.
