Nadia's POV
Washington was three days of the most focused work I'd done since Mumbai.
Carol and I spent the first two days in the hotel preparing. Not the presentation itself, that was ready. The room. Who would be in it, what they cared about, and where the framework intersected with the specific policy problems the World Bank working group was trying to solve.
The working group lead was Dr. Amara Osei. Ghanaian, sixty, had spent thirty years at the intersection of development economics and infrastructure policy. Carol had sent me her published work in July. I'd read all of it.
She'd built the theoretical foundation I'd been standing on when I built the framework. I hadn't fully understood that until I was sitting across from her.
The meeting was four hours.
Not a presentation. A wo
