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This week in Washington, D.C., a VEON delegation led by our Chairman and Founder, Augie K Fabela II, and including Aamir Ibrahim, CEO of JazzWorld and Chairman of JazzCash and Mobilink Bank, and Johan Buse, CEO of banglalink, met with The World Bank Group senior leadership during the World Bank–IMF Spring Meetings for a series of high-level discussions on advancing digital transformation and inclusion. 💡We met with Johannes Zutt, Vice President for South Asia, to discuss how we contribute to financial inclusion as an enabler through digital payments. We also discussed our shared aim of addressing the “usage gap,” lowering the barriers to owning device ownership and to digital services access. 💡With Sangbu Kim, Vice President for Digital Transformation, Germán Cufré, Global Manager for Digital Infrastructure and Affordability, and Illango Patchamuthu, Director for Strategy and Operations of the South Asia Region, we discussed our commitment to closing the digital divide across our markets - leveraging innovative digital and AI powered services to empower communities, business owners, and individual customers. 💡With Bob Saum, Division Director for Ukraine, and Michel Kerf, Regional Practice Director for Digital Transformation, we shared how Kyivstar (Київстар) leverages digital infrastructure to drive national development and resilience, highlighting ways of working together to further these goals. With our “Invest in Ukraine NOW!” initiative, we seek to catalyze private investment into Ukraine on a global scale and with our own investments, we walk the talk. 💡With Bolormaa Amgaabazar, Country Director for Pakistan, we discussed how JazzWorld and JazzCash are spearheading Pakistan's digital transformation, and how the private sector and World Bank can work more closely together to accelerate digital access, financial inclusion and economic growth. 💡We also met with Denis Medvedev, Global Director for Trade, Competition, and Business, with whom we shared how private sector can contribute to development objectives in emerging markets, enabling wider opportunities and a better life for all.