Francisco Carneiro is the Lead Economist and Program Leader for the Caribbean at the World Bank. Since joining the World Bank in 2003, he has worked in multiple regions of the world. Before 2003, Mr. Carneiro was professor of Economics at the University of Brasilia and at the Catholic University of Brasilia, and served as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of External Relations in Brazil. He has authored and co-authored a number of academic papers and World Bank reports on a range of topics that include macroeconomics and growth, natural resource revenue management, trade, labor market institutions, poverty, and inequality. Born in Brazil, he received his PhD in Economics from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom in 1996.