Yvonne Tsikata is a Ghanaian economist and currently serves as the World Bank Vice President and Corporate Secretary.
She previously served as the Chief of Staff and Director of the Office President of the World Bank Group.
[1] Yvonne was also the sector director for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department of the Europe and Central Asia Region.
Before joining the World Bank President's office in September 2013, Tsikata was Director of Economic Policy in the Europe and Central Asia region.
[6][7] In 1998 and 2001, while on leave from the World Bank Group, she served as a senior research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Foundation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; as a consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris; and to the United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki.