The World Bank Group has announced a key leadership appointment for its Caribbean operations, confirming that Jamaican national Judith Green will take up the post of Country Manager for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States starting September 1, 2026.
Per an official press statement from the global development institution, Green will establish her headquarters in Bridgetown, Barbados, and will oversee representation for three distinct arms of the World Bank Group: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).
In her new leadership role, Green will collaborate closely with national governments and private sector stakeholders across the entire sub-region. Her core priorities will center on advancing targeted initiatives that drive inclusive job creation and advance long-term sustainable development goals tailored to the unique economic and social needs of Eastern Caribbean nations.
Green brings decades of diverse, high-level experience across the public and private sectors to her new position, built over years of service within the World Bank Group and beyond. Immediately prior to this appointment, she held dual roles simultaneously: serving as World Bank Group Country Manager for Malaysia, and IFC Country Manager for Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Islands, Australia, and New Zealand. In those positions, she successfully partnered with both public and private sector partners to advance critical government regulatory reforms, mobilize billions in new private sector investment across emerging markets, and manage the delivery of large-scale strategic advisory programs that strengthened institutional capacity.
Green also brings deep firsthand experience working with Caribbean economic governance. Between 2013 and 2016, she took approved external service leave from IFC to lead Jamaica’s Coordination and Implementation Unit. In that role, she oversaw the execution of Jamaica’s four-year Extended Fund Facility agreement with the International Monetary Fund, one of the Caribbean nation’s most ambitious and far-reaching economic reform programs of the past decade.
Before launching her career with the World Bank Group, Green built her foundational expertise in international finance, holding senior roles at multiple global financial institutions where she specialized in corporate finance strategy and global loan capital markets.