If your ambition is to work where global economic and policy decisions are actually made, this batch is built for you. There are 10 internships open across four countries, and six of them are inside the World Bank Group itself, from an anti corruption AI Data Lab to the Women, Business and the Law index and the flagship Business Ready report. Alongside them sit two United Nations roles, sustainable development project management in South Korea and media strategy at UN Global Communications in New York, and two placements in Brussels at the heart of European energy policy and one of the world's top ten think tanks. This is data, legal research, economics and policy work at the highest level, and the earliest deadlines are today.
A note on funding. Most of these are unpaid internships, which is standard for the World Bank, the UN and international institutions, but they carry a name on your CV that opens doors for years. One is paid: the partnerships and development role at the Brussels think tank, at 1,200 euro a month. The others reward you in experience, mentorship and access rather than salary, so apply with that in mind. Deadlines run from today, 2 August, through to 16 August 2026.
What's in this batch:
10 Internships · 4 Countries · Deadlines 2 to 16 August 2026
💼 Internships
🇰🇷 Internship in South Korea 🌏 Project Management at the UN Office for Sustainable Development 📊
📅 Deadline: 2 August 2026
An office built specifically to help countries turn the 2030 Agenda into national plans, with a focus on LDCs, small island states and landlocked countries. Research, data work and policy analysis, running the dissemination platforms for UNOSD data and news, drafting and translating communication materials, and the logistics behind flagship forums, conferences and training workshops.
🇺🇸 Internship in the United States 📺 Media Market Research and Strategy at UN Global Communications 📈
📅 Deadline: 2 August 2026
The team that licenses UN media to broadcasters worldwide wants an intern who can read an audience dataset and act on it. Identifying media clients and strategic partnerships, proposing new digital marketing and distribution tools, building AI into media analysis and content syndication workflows, and working the Media Centre during the General Debate of the General Assembly.
🇺🇸 Internship in the United States 🤖 AI Engineer for Integrity and Anti-Corruption at the World Bank 🛡️
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
The team that investigates fraud in World Bank projects runs a Data Lab building AI agents, and it takes interns. Designing and fine-tuning LLM-based agents, iterating on prompts, optimising retrieval-augmented generation pipelines on Azure, integrating models with front-end and back-end teams, and evaluating emerging agentic AI frameworks over a 150-day placement.
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🇰🇼 Internship in Kuwait 🏛️ Country Operations at the World Bank Group 📈
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
An internship embedded across IFC, CMU, ECR and GGP, working on the World Bank Group's actual country engagement in Kuwait. Background research feeding sector briefs and policy notes, portfolio monitoring and reporting, organising stakeholder engagements with government counterparts, and drafting briefing materials for senior management and missions.
🇰🇼 Internship in Kuwait 📈 Private Sector Engagements at IFC and the World Bank Group 🤝
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Sitting inside IFC while it works on Kuwait's economic diversification, close enough to see how private sector deals actually get built. Analysis of private sector trends, investment climate and sector competitiveness, business development materials and project documentation, market research and pipeline development, plus sector briefs and stakeholder engagements with government counterparts.
🇺🇸 Internship in the United States 📊 Business Ready Research and Data at the World Bank 🏛️
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
The report that scores the business environment of almost every economy on earth is built by a team that takes interns. Legal research on topic-specific regulations, administering expert questionnaires, merging and validating raw Stata datasets, maintaining country indicators, and turning findings into blogs, infographics and presentations.
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🇺🇸 Internship in the United States ⚖️ Women, Business and the Law Research at the World Bank 📊
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
One index tracks the laws limiting women's work and enterprise across 190 economies, and this internship helps build it. Comparative legal research on family, labour and violence against women laws, verifying country files against primary sources, econometric analysis of the data, contributor and Government Focal Point outreach, and dissemination through workshops, webinars and the annual report launch.
🇺🇸 Internship in the United States 💳 Financial Inclusion and Infrastructure at the World Bank 🏦
📅 Deadline: 13 August 2026
The team advising central banks on how to bring small businesses and individuals into the financial system takes an undergraduate intern into the data. Web scraping and API integration to build datasets, coding analysis in Stata, R or Python, integrating LLMs into research, and leading your own project, from crypto payment patterns to AI-assisted document review.
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🇧🇪 Internship in Belgium ⚡ Markets, Investments and Customers at the European Electricity Industry Association 🔌
📅 Deadline: 16 August 2026
The association speaking for the electricity industry in 32 countries needs someone tracking the EU rules that reshape the market. Monitoring and analysing internal electricity market policy, the Electricity Regulation and Directive and the Citizens Energy Package, supporting working groups and committees, and drafting position papers, briefings and advocacy deliverables.
🇧🇪 Internship in Belgium 🤝 Partnerships, Development and Intelligence at a Leading European Policy Think Tank 📊 (€1,200/month)
📅 Deadline: 16 August 2026
Research funding does not appear on its own, it is hunted for, and this internship sits inside one of the world's top ten think tanks tracking it. Monitoring EU funding calls, managing the proposal pipeline, supporting research proposals through submission, running eligibility and compliance checks, and maintaining partner databases across Salesforce and SharePoint.
From an AI Data Lab fighting fraud inside the World Bank to the index measuring women's economic rights across 190 economies, from sustainable development in Seoul to electricity market policy in Brussels, this is a rare cluster of internships at institutions most people only read about. Six sit inside the World Bank Group, two at the UN and two in Brussels, and the two UN roles close today, 2 August, with the World Bank placements following on 12 and 13 August and the Brussels ones on 16 August. Get your CV and one sharp motivation letter ready, and apply before your pick closes.
