Steen Lau Jorgensen Director for Social Development, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank "New Frontiers in Social Policy - Human Security in a Fragile World" dinner speech
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Steen Lau Jorgensen is currently the Director for Social Development in the Sustainable Development Network of the World Bank. Prior to this appointment, he was acting Vice President for the Environment and Socially Sustainable Development network.  In his more than twenty years in the Bank, he has worked on strategy and operational activities across a number of themes including human, economic and social development, as well as governance and community empowerment.  Mr. Jorgensen has also held corporate jobs in the Bank working for Regional and Senior Management.

Mr. Jorgensen is the co-author of two strategy papers, “Empowering People by Transforming Institutions: Social Development in World Bank Organizations” and the “Social Protection Sector Strategy from Safety Net to Springboard”, as well as academic publications on community development and poverty analysis.

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