Regional Principal, AI Economic Preparedness

The role

This person will run a portfolio of country engagements to examine how advanced AI affects development models. They will lead scenario workshops, convene working groups, and guide governments through diagnosis, monitoring, and policy change.

What you will do

• Own each country engagement from scoping to close
• Set the starting hypothesis and research questions for each country
• Direct the analysis and research tools behind each engagement
• Adapt reference scenarios to each country's context
• Lead workshops with ministers, senior officials, local experts and international partners
• Identify and convene economists, think tanks and officials in each country and across the region
• Guide governments and local partners as they set up early-warning indicators and select policy options
• Represent Windfall in the region and build relationships with multilateral country offices and funders
• Contribute to proposals that fund new country work
• Track government monitoring and decisions to feed lessons into Windfall's shared approach

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in economic policy, international development, government advisory or strategy consulting, including leading multi-stakeholder programs
• A track record of leading engagements with governments, ideally ministries of ICT, finance, education, economy or planning in developing countries or those of the region
• A grounding in development economics and public policy, such as labor markets, informality, structural transformation, trade or public finance
• The judgment to turn analysis into a clear argument for a minister
• Experience designing and facilitating workshops or convenings with senior officials
• Experience building and running expert networks, working groups or coalitions
• Experience managing teams, consultants or partners, and holding budgets and timelines across several workstreams
• Clear, persuasive writing and speaking for senior government, multilateral and funder audiences
• A serious interest in how advanced AI could reshape economies, jobs and public finances
• A collaborative, reliable working style suited to a small team spread across time zones

Nice to have

• Experience with a multilateral or development organization (e.g., World Bank, IMF or OECD), or strategy consulting
• A background in foresight or scenario planning
• An existing network of economists and policymakers in the region
• A working language or experience in the region
• Experience writing funding proposals or managing funder relationships

About the company

Windfall Trust is a policy research organization preparing governments and institutions for AI-driven economic disruption. They advise countries on economic preparedness for transformative AI.