Financial Results

The World Bank Group has a financial disclosure program to ensure that any conflicts of interest can be identified and managed in the best interests of the Bank Group.

The World Bank Group has a declaration of interests program to ensure that any actual, potential, or apparent conflicts of interest arising from staff members’ financial interests, business relationships, other private affiliations or outside activities, or those of their immediate family members, can be identified and managed in the best interests of the Bank Group. Staff members are required to complete and submit a confidential declaration of interests on an annual basis. The Bank Group’s Office of Ethics and Business Conduct administers the program in accordance with Principle 3 under the Principles of Staff Employment and Staff Rule 3.03, Financial Interest and Disclosure.

In the spirit and interest of good organizational governance and transparency, the declaration of interests program for the Bank Group’s Senior Management Team and Vice Presidents includes public disclosure of certain types of financial and other interests. Public disclosure of this information helps demonstrate to the Bank Group’s stakeholders that, in the discharge of their official duties and responsibilities, the Bank Group’s senior leaders are not, and do not appear to be, influenced by any consideration associated with their own private interests. The public declarations for the Bank Group’s senior leaders are accessible below.