Johannes F Linn

Johannes F. Linn is a Distinguished Resident Scholar at Emerging Markets Forum, Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Senior Fellow at the Results for Development Institute (R4D). In 2019, he served as the Gobal Facilitator for the First Replenishment of the Green Climate Fund. From 2005 to 2010, Mr Linn was Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. In 2004, he was the lead author of the United Nations Development Program's Central Asia Human Development Report, 2005. Prior to joining Brookings in 2003, he worked for three decades at the World Bank. From 1996 to 2003, Mr Linn was the Bank's Vice President for Europe and Central Asia. Mr Linn has published extensively on development and global governance issues. His current research is in the areas of scaling up successful development interventions, global governance reform, and regional cooperation and integration (with a special focus on Central Asia and greater Eurasia).