Josebe Miren Bilbao-Henry

Senior HR specialist Inclusion and Belonging

The World Bank

Josebe Bilbao-Henry is a Senior Inclusion and Belonging Officer at the WBG. Her works focuses on developing learning and awareness programs and on outreach. She also works with a network of inclusion champions in country offices to embed the inclusion agenda across the World Bank Group. In this role, she has been an innovator in platforms and products to learn about unconscious bias and increase empathy among different identity groups and as a result, she led the design of Virtual Reality experiences on sexual orientation and gender identity, on disabilities, on race, caste and ethnicity, and, more recently, on neurodiversity. Previously, she was the Manager of Language and Culture and lead the intercultural competence program for the WBG. In this capacity, she helped teams in several regions increase collaboration and effectiveness while leveraging diverse cultural mindsets. Before joining the Bank, Josebe was a professor at The George Washington University where she designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on language and on culture and politics in Spain. She is the author of Transición, a language textbook that uses an innovative approach to building critical-thinking skills in a foreign language. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University in Philosophy of Language and a M.Ed. in Educational Leadership at The George Washington University.

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