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Pfutze, Tobias
Tobias Pfutze is a former senior economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Region and associate professor of economics at Florida International University. He is an applied microeconomist with an interest in social protection policies, land tenure systems, and institutional economics. He has also held academic positions at Georgetown University, American University, and Oberlin College and worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and World Development. He completed his undergraduate studies at Humboldt University in Berlin and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He holds a doctorate in economics from New York University. -
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La Cascia, Joseph Huntington
Hunt La Cascia is a Senior Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank's Governance Global Unit. He focuses on public sector reform, service, and knowledge functions to support the World Bank's global portfolio of projects with GovTech components. Hunt provides advice and support to government clients, global task teams, and governance staff in preparing and supervising projects with major GovTech investments. He plays a significant role in improving World Bank GovTech practices and approaches. Hunt works on GovTech initiatives such as Cloud Frameworks and Methodologies, Greening GovTech, Digital Economy Governance, and Anticorruption. He also leads initiatives to modernize procurement functions in World Bank client countries by spearheading global e-Procurement initiatives and other procurement reform activities, including Procurement Data Analytics, Green Public Procurement, and Emergency Procurement. -
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Rouanet, Léa
I am a Senior Economist working at the World Bank, where I am the Deputy Head of the Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL). I support African women and girls to achieve equality by learning what does and does not work to close gender gaps in earnings, productivity, assets, and agency, and using these insights to shape policy. I currently lead several impact evaluations aiming to identify and address gender-based constraints to economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa. I also lead the conceptualization and execution of the GIL research uptake strategy within the World Bank and with selected external partners; and supervise all research uptake analysts and research analysts within the team. Before joining the World Bank, I was a PhD candidate and Research Fellow at the Paris School of Economics, where my research focused on nutrition, child mortality, fertility and gender preferences in Africa. I hold a PhD from the Paris School of Economics. -
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Gala, Priyal Mukesh
Priyal Mukesh Gala is a consultant with the Education Global Practice and the South Asia Education team at the World Bank. She specializes in primary and secondary education, teacher education, technical and vocational skills education, program management, and the Global South. Her work focuses on the Foundational Learning Compact trust fund in primary and secondary education. She also works on technical and vocational education and training and skills for employment with a focus on countries in South Asia. She has supported research on assessments in early grade reading and assessing digital connectivity and the impact of school closures during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Before joining the World Bank, she worked with the Wikimedia Foundation, Global School Leaders, World Learning, and Teach for India. She holds a graduate degree in international education and human development from the George Washington University. -
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Aturupane, Harsha
Harsha Aturupane is a lead economist at the World Bank. He has also been the country sector coordinator for human development for Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and the program leader for human development for the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, at the World Bank. He has worked and written extensively in the fields of human development, education economics, higher education, general education, labor economics, welfare economics, and the economics of inequality and poverty reduction. He has led teams in the preparation and supervision of World Bank projects and programs covering higher education, general education, health, social protection, economic reform, private sector development, and governance processes. He has a PhD and MPhil in economics from the University of Cambridge and a BA in economics and diploma in economic development from the University of Colombo. -
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Nakata, Shiro
Shiro Nakata is a senior economist in the South Asia Region of the World Bank Education Global Practice. He specializes in education economics, technical education, and higher education. He has led lending projects and analytical work in the Europe and Central Asia Region and the South Asia Region. He has published reports focusing on skills for the future of work, green jobs and skills, recognition of prior learning, and graduate employability. He holds an MA in economics and a PhD from Kobe University, and a master of research from the Institute of Education at the University of London. -
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Elsheikhi, Adam
Adam Elsheikhi is a consultant at the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice in the Middle East and North Africa region. His current research covers job quality, welfare, poverty, and inequality. Previously, he was an economist at the International Labour Organization investigating the impact of COVID-19 on the Least Developed Nations’ economies, and also conducted research in relation to youth labour markets with a particular focus on the digital and creative economies. He holds a MA in Economics from Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom, and a MSc in Economics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. -
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Fay, Marianne
Latin America and the Caribbean Region, The World BankMarianne Fay, an economist specializing in sustainable development, is the World Bank director for Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru. She has 25 years’ experience in different regions of the world, contributing to knowledge on and the search for development solutions in the areas of infrastructure, urbanization, climate change, green growth and poverty reduction. She has published and edited several books and articles, including the “World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change,” and the report “Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Developments and Key Challenges.” Marianne is a U.S.-French binational. -
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Khan, Amjad
Economist providing evidence-based insights to inform policy design and investment projects, particularly in developing country contexts. My work has focused on issues of human capital formation, urbanization, regional development, conflict and natural resource management. I specialize in building analytical narratives that engage with contextual nuances through large amounts of quantitative/spatial data and economic theory. Much of my research interest also lies at the intersection of political economy, economic history and institutional economics. -
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Lokshin, Michael M.
Development Data GroupMichael Lokshin is a Lead Economist and Manager in the Development Data Group of the World Bank. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 after which he joined the research group at the World Bank as a Young Economist (YE program). His research focuses on the areas of poverty and inequality measurement, labor economics, and applied econometrics. More recently he has been involved in the Bank's efforts to develop the methodology of evaluating the effect of crisis and public policies on households in developing countries. He also leads the group of researchers in development of the Software Platform for Automated Economic Analysis (ADePT).