Changing of the guard — key leadership changes in the past year

A number of key development institutions named or announced new leaders in 2019. We’ve compiled some of the biggest and most controversial ones.

This included two new development bank executives, both of whom ran unchallenged for the positions; two high-profile women who took over the leadership of embattled U.N. organizations; and one senior ministerial post that has been vacated thrice in the course of the year — and remains empty for now. Read the rest of the visual story here.

Vince Chadwick, Catherine Cheney, Michael Igoe, Sara Jerving, and Adva Saldinger contributed reporting to this article.