Key Skills & Expertise

Operational advice and quality assurance across the full World Bank Group (WBG) project cycle; project and program design, appraisal, and supervision; economic, social, and political analysis; operational policy formulation; capacity development and governance; diaspora and remittances finance; and independent program evaluation. Dr. Cambridge holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, with a concentration in International Economics and International Politics, from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, and is fluent in English with working competence in French and Spanish.

Operational Advice, Project Design, Management & Implementation

Dr. Cambridge served as Task Team Leader/Task Manager on eighteen (18) World Bank-financed investment and adjustment operations and as Project Economist on a further eleven (11) investment projects, spanning agriculture, human development, transport, public administration, construction industry, social safety net, environment, education, and population, health, and nutrition. He carried operations from identification and appraisal through supervision and closing, including as Regional Operations Adviser for the Africa Region and for the South Asia Region (covering India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Maldives, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka), and as Principal Economist in the India Country Department's Population and Human Resources Operations Division. As Personal Assistant to the World Bank's Senior Vice President for Operations (1974–1978), he was exposed to the full range of Bank/International Development Association (IDA) policies and procedures, served as Secretary of the Loan Committee, and attended Board of Executive Directors meetings on operational issues during the era the modern project cycle was established.

Monitoring & Evaluation

Dr. Cambridge led an independent evaluation of the Governance Partnership Facility, a US$89.0 million World Bank-administered multi-donor trust fund, directing a team of international and American consultants. He also led the Africa Region's training coordination function, designing and delivering results-oriented, quality-assurance training later validated through independent evaluation as outstanding.

Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) Country Experience

Dr. Cambridge's operational and post-retirement advisory work covers several countries currently designated by the World Bank as Fragile and Conflict-affected Situations (FCV), including Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. He served as Project Economist for the Sudan and Somalia Second Education Projects, and post-retirement provided operational advice and support for Somalia's Recurrent Cost and Reform Financing project, financed through a Multi-Partner Fund managed by the World Bank, fragile-state public-finance advisory at the macro level. He also designed and implemented an Operations and Leadership Training Program for country and World Bank staff managing the World Bank-assisted portfolio in Nigeria.

Trust Funds

Independent evaluator of the Governance Partnership Facility (US$89.0 million multi-donor trust fund); operational adviser to the Somalia Recurrent Cost and Reform Financing project, supported by a Multi-Partner Fund managed by the World Bank.

Relationships with Donors & International Organizations

As Adviser and Manager of the African Diaspora Program, Dr. Cambridge worked directly with the African Union, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the European Community, and several bilateral donors on remittance flows and diaspora-financed development. Earlier, as Personal Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Operations, he organized consultations for Bank/IDA cooperation with other bilateral and multilateral lending institutions, including the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), AfDB, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Arab Funds, Japan's Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF), the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), France's Caisse Centrale de Coopération Économique (CCCE), Sweden's SIDA, and Canada's CIDA. Most recently (2025), he provided advisory services to the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF).

Sectoral Experience

Agriculture, education (primary, secondary, technical, and university), transport, public administration, construction industry, social safety net, environment, population, health and nutrition, urban and water/sanitation, and governance and capacity development.

Countries Worked In

India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Venezuela, Jamaica, and countries across the Africa, South Asia, East Asia and Pacific, and Latin America and Caribbean regions through Bank-wide operational policy and training assignments.

Academic & Teaching Experience

Ph.D. in International Relations, with concentrations on International Economics and Politics, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; M.A. with Distinction, International Relations, SAIS; B.A., Economics and Political Science, Macalester College (Fulbright Scholar). Senior Lecturer and Adjunct Professor, School of Education, Teaching and Health, American University, Washington, D.C.; Adjunct Professor, Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Taught history and economics at Queen's College, Guyana, prior to joining the World Bank. Studied at the United Nations Graduate Study Program, Geneva; Stanford University Graduate School of Education; and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Division of Applied Sciences.