Verena Fritz

Verena Fritz is a Senior Public Sector Specialist with the World Bank Group’s Governance Global Practice. Her areas of expertise include state-building processes, political economy analysis, and public sector and public financial management reforms. She has undertaken analytic, advisory and operational work mainly in East Asia, Europe and Central Asia, and in Africa, and has led the World Bank Group’s Political Economy Community of Practice for a number of years. Verena holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute in Florence and has published a number of articles, working papers and books on her areas of interest, including Political Economy of Public Financial Management Reforms (with Marijn Verhoeven and Ambra Avenia, 2017); From Form to Function to Sustainable Solutions? Reforming Public Sectors in Low Income Countries: New Approaches and Available Evidence of “What Works” (2016); Strengthening Public Financial Management: Exploring Drivers and Effects (with Stephanie Sweet and Marijn Verhoeven, 2014); Problem-Driven Political Economy Analysis: the World Bank's Experience (with Brian Levy and Rachel Ort, 2014); Public Financial Management Reforms in Post-Conflict Countries (with Ana Paula Fialho Lopes, Ed Hedger, and Heidi Tavakoli); Making Public Sector Reforms Work -- Political and Economic Contexts, Incentives, and Strategies (with Simone Bunse, 2012), Problem-Driven Political Economy Analysis: A Good Practice Framework (with Brian Levy and Kai Kaiser,  2009) and Understanding State-Building from a Political Economy Perspective (with Alina Rocha Menocal, 2007); and Developmental States in the New Millennium (with Alina Rocha Menocal, 2007).