Martha Martínez Licetti is a Global Lead at the World Bank’s Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice, where she heads the Markets and Competition Policy Team. During her eight years at the Bank, Licetti has held different positions, including advisor on trade and competitiveness matters, as well as lead economist of the Global Trade Unit, where she has studied the connection between trade agreements and competition-enhancing domestic policies. She has been the technical lead on several projects aimed at improving the investment climate and fostering an efficient private sector through competition reforms across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and the Sub-Saharan Africa region. She has led private-sector contributions to Bank-wide initiatives on state-owned enterprises, public procurement frameworks, and improvements to IFC investments. In her current role, she has developed an innovative competition policy offering, and she has built a portfolio of advisory and lending support to more than 60 client countries around the world. Before joining the Bank, Licetti worked as a practitioner in leading positions in the private and public sectors in areas of antitrust, market and competition analysis, state-owned enterprises, telecom regulation, anti-dumping, and trade negotiations. She is an economist, specializing in industrial organization, applied microeconomics, and antitrust, with more than 15 years of experience in economic regulation, markets, and competition policy. She has given lecture courses in industrial organization, network regulation, antitrust, and economic analysis of law, and she has published articles on antitrust policies in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She has doctoral, masters, and advanced studies degrees in economics from Northeastern University in Boston, University of Texas at Austin, and the Institute of World Economics in Kiel, Germany. Her current research interests focus on understanding the empirical relationship between competition policy and market regulation, inclusive growths, and shared prosperity.