Loli Arribas-Banos, a Spanish national, is currently the Practice Manager for the Social Protection and Jobs Global Unit at the World Bank. Prior to this assignment, she had a similar role at the Poverty and Equity Global Practice with a two year break as a secondee at the Strategy Unit at the French Development Agency (AFD for its acronym in French). Loli has worked on operations, policy advice and analytical activities in Latin America, Africa, South Asia, and Europe and was the World Bank country manager/resident representative in Ecuador from 2009 to 2013. Loli has a masters degree in international public policy from SAIS/Johns Hopkins University, a master degree/MBA from George Washington University, and a Graduate degree in Economics from the University of Valladolid in Spain.