William Seitz is a Senior Economist and team leader for the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank in Central Asia, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. His areas of expertise include poverty measurement, small area estimation, labor market analysis, and survey methods. Before joining the World Bank, William worked as a Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. William holds an MBA from the University of Denver and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Milan.