Profile
Margo Thomas
International Advisory Board member
Founder and CEO: Women’s Economic Imperative, Co-Chair T20 Task Force on Gender Economic Equity and Chatham House Associate Fellow
Margo Thomas' career spans more than two decades as a senior official at the World Bank Group.
The World Bank Group is the world's premier development organisation. Margo has provided policy advice to more than 50 national and sub-national governments.
Margo holds a doctoral degree in public policy and private sector development from the University of Manchester.
Margo’s areas of focus include:
- trade and competitiveness
- women’s economic empowerment
- business environment reform
- regulatory reform
- investment policy
In April 2017, Dr Thomas completed her appointment as the Chief of Secretariat for the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment.
In her position as Founder and CEO of the Women’s Economic Imperative, Dr Thomas increases opportunities for the economic empowerment of disadvantaged and under-represented groups.
Dr Thomas is also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Dr Thomas serves as the Co-Chair of the 2019 Think 20 Sub-Task Force on Gender Economic Equity under the Japanese G20 Presidency. She continues this function from the 2018 Think 20 Task Force on Gender Economic Equity.