Speaker

Edith Umole is currently the program manager for Talent Management at the World Bank Group, in this role which has led the transformation of the Talent review program and developed a succession framework for identifying and deploying senior leaders within the organization. She has over fifteen years HR experience in the areas of talent management; performance management; compensation and benefits program design and implementation both within major global multinational organizations in the United Kingdom such as Shell, AMEC, as well as with Mercer Consulting, where she led the design and implementation of the 1st Global Energy Trading Survey. 

In 2015, she was one of the core project leads that developed the World Bank Group’s Career Framework to deliver faster and more agile talent development and deployment to ramp-up the organization’s capacity to address complex client challenges. She is recognized as an innovative and strategic HR business partner who continuously aligns HR products and processes to meet the changing demands of the organization.

Edith holds a Master of Science in Human Resource Management from the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Benin, Nigeria