Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.