David Bernstein retired from the World Bank in 2024 after over 20 years working on justice reform, anticorruption and public sector development. David has recently served as an International Commissioner on the Selection Commission for a new head of Ukraine’s State Customs Service. David was a Lead Public Sector Specialist in the World Bank’s Governance Unit working in the Middle East and North Africa region when he retired. David worked on justice reform and anticorruption projects in the MENA countries, including Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and West Bank & Gaza. Prior to working in the MENA region, David led justice reform and anticorruption projects in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union starting in 2003.  David also worked in the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency where he focused on corruption prevention activities in the East Asia Pacific region and served as advisor to INT’s Policy Director. David has worked on public sector reform projects focusing on the justice sector since 1992 and on anticorruption projects since 2010. Mr. Bernstein is a lawyer who has worked in private legal practice at WilmerHale (formerly Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering), for the U.S. State Department (in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor) and for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where David led the EBRD’s Legal Transition Team and published the regional Law in Transition journal. David has a B.A. summa cum laude in economics and political science from the University of Michigan and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.