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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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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). -
PersonBorgomeo, Edoardo
Water Global PracticeEdoardo’s work focuses on water resources management, climate change adaptation, and infrastructure planning. In his current assignment, he leads analytical and advisory activities on water security and transboundary water management and works on water sectir projects in Africa and Central Asia. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Rome and at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka. He has held research appointments at the European University Institute, University of Oxford, International Institute for Applied System Analysis, and Imaflora. In 2018 he was awarded the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water for his research work on water resources planning in times of climate change. He holds an undergraduate degree from Imperial College London and a PhD on climate change adaptation in the water sector from the University of Oxford. -
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Russ, Jason
Office of the Chief Economist of the Sustainable Development Practice, The World BankJason Russ is a Senior Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist of the Sustainable Development Practice at the World Bank. His professional interests center on using econometrics and data analytics to diagnose development challenges, and quantify the economic and social impacts of environmental externalities. His tenure at the World Bank includes five years in the Water Global Practice where he helped to develop and coordinate the analytical work program of the Economics Global Solutions Group, including authoring many of its global flagship reports. He has authored numerous publications in academic journals largely related to environmental and development economics. Prior to joining the World Bank he was an analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George Washington University. -
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Zaveri, Esha
Esha Zaveri is a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Water Global Practice with professional interests in water resource management, climate impacts, environmental health, and the use of geospatial data with statistical analysis to study interactions between the environment, and social and economic systems. She has published on these topics in leading scientific journals and has authored flagship reports of the World Bank on water scarcity (Uncharted Waters, 2017), water pollution (Quality Unknown, 2019), and migration (Ebb and Flow, 2021). Prior to joining the World Bank, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Food Security and the Environment where she remains an affiliated scholar. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics and Demography from Pennsylvania State University. -
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Rentschler, Jun
GGSCEJun Rentschler is a Senior Economist at the Office of the Chief Economist for Sustainable Development, working at the intersection of climate change and sustainable resilient development. Prior to joining The World Bank in 2012, he served as an Economic Adviser at the German Foreign Ministry. He also spent two years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) working on private sector investment projects in resource efficiency and climate change. Before that he worked on projects with Grameen Microfinance Bank in Bangladesh and the Partners for Financial Stability Program by USAID in Poland. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, following previous affiliations with the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. Jun holds a PhD in Economics from University College London (UCL), specializing in development, climate, and energy. -
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Midgley, Amelia
Water Global Practice, The World BankAmelia is currently an Economist at the World Bank, working in the Water Global Practice. Amelia completed her first year as Young Professional in the Climate Change Group. Amelia’s technical interests include natural resource management, climate resilient development and transboundary water management. Before joining the World Bank, Amelia was an associate at Genesis Analytics, a management consulting firm based in South Africa, and worked in their Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnerships Practice. Between 2015 and 2017, Amelia formed part of the economic appraisal team at the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility, a DFID flagship water project in SADC.