Renaud Seligmann is practice manager in the Governance Global Practice of the World Bank, working on Middle East and North Africa. Mr. Seligmann started his career as member of the Court of Accounts, the French Supreme Audit Institution. His focus was on aggregate fiscal risk in the public sector, performance budgeting and the evaluation of public sector reforms. He then became deputy director of external audit at the United Nations Board of Auditors, where he led the first UN-wide audit of the response to the South Asian tsunami and was in charge of the audit of the UN Secretariat, UNICEF and other funds and programs, before joining the World Bank in 2007. He was based Washington, DC and Pretoria, South Africa and worked mostly on public financial management. From 2011 to 2015, he was a sector manager for Financial Management, then practice manager in the Governance Global Practice, working on the Africa region. Mr. Seligmann was on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's "Public Financial Management in a Changing World" executive education course led by Matt Andrews from 2012-16. He is an honorary fellow as well as a Council member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountancy (UK). Mr. Seligmann holds a B.A. (hons.) in philosophy, politics and economics from University of Oxford, a master's degree in political sociology from Sorbonne-Paris I University and a master's degree in public policy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po). He is also a graduate from the French National School for Administration executive leadership program.