Holger Kray is the World Bank’s Regional Manager for Agriculture and Food in Europe and Central Asia. He is an agriculture economist with global expertise in agricultural policy and strategy reform, sustainable agriculture and rural development, agri-food market and regional integration, and public sector management. He has extensive working experience across Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Before joining the World Bank, he served a global management consulting firm, mainly as senior expert on change management in the financial services industry and later led a development consulting firm working with international organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Kiel University, Germany.