Saleh Brahimi is President and CEO of Grey Matter International, a global boutique strategic advisory services firm based in Washington DC, USA. He started his career in consulting for a number of third-party consulting mandates, operating internationally out of European bases. Salah was a senior executive at the World Bank, with responsibility for the Bank’s largest global public goods multilateral Trust Fund portfolio within its sustainable development area. He is also active in various area of civil society and philanthropic development cooperation. He was a recipient of the World Bank President’s Award for Leadership in Diversity as well as several World Bank Performance Awards: particularly for his role in negotiating record amounts of global investments into the restructured Trust Fund portfolios under his purview. Saleh holds an M.Sc. degree in Biochemical and Agricultural Engineering, a post-graduate executive certificate for the World Bank/CGIAR Leadership Program from Harvard Business School, the World Bank’s certifications for the full suite of Financial Management and Governance Imperatives and a number of other academic credentials notably from Oxford and Paris Universities.