Vice Chair | GDN Board
Global Director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank Group
Luis Felipe López-Calva, ASG, is the Global Director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank Group. He has nearly 30 years of professional experience, advising several Mexican governments, UNDP and the World Bank where he most recently served as Practice Manager of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice (Europe and Central Asia). He was the co-director and lead author of the World Development Report 2017 on ‘Governance and the Law’. He was previously Lead Economist and Regional Poverty Advisor in the Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region, and Lead Economist at the Poverty, Equity and Gender Unit in the Latin America and Caribbean PREM Directorate, also at the World Bank. From 2007-2010, he served as Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNDP-RBLAC in New York. Luis Felipe has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and a Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. He has also chaired the Network on Inequality and Poverty in the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Association. His research interests focus on labour markets, poverty and inequality, institutions and microeconomics of development. He has presented his research at top institutions, including Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Centre.