Dr. Aziz Atamanov graduated September 2011 from the PhD programme in Public Policy and Policy Analysis here at the School of Governance. He soon joined the World Bank, first as a consultant on the Central Asian region and, since 2012, on data management, poverty and shared prosperity analysis on the MENA region. Dr. Mindel van de Laar spoke with Aziz at World Bank HQ, Washington DC, in early April. She asked him how his PhD launched his career, how he has grown ‘on the job’, and what...