Cornelius Fleischhaker is a senior economist with the World Bank, covering macroeconomics and public finance in Angola and Sao Tome and Principe. In this role he leads budget support operations in both countries as well as analytical work on government expenditures, debt sustainability and other macroeconomic and public finance issues. Before moving to the Africa region of the World Bank in 2020, he spent seven years in the Latin America region of the World Bank, working on a broad range of macroeconomics and public finance issues, including public expenditures in El Salvador and tax reform and fiscal adjustment of subnational governments in Brazil. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2013, he spent a year with the IMF working on the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

A national of Germany, he holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from TU Dresden (Germany) and a master’s in international economics and Latin American studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC.