Jamele Rigolini is a Lead Economist at the World Bank and the Program Leader for Human Development for the Western Balkan countries. His areas of expertise include social protection, human development, labor markets, poverty and gender policies. During his career at the World Bank he worked on human development, poverty reduction and labor market policies in East Asia and the Pacific; Latin America and the Caribbean; Africa; and Eastern Europe. He also managed the World Bank’s flagship reports for Latin America and the Caribbean, maintaining close dialogue with other international organizations and Latin American academic institutions and think tanks. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Warwick (UK). Rigolini holds a degree in physics from the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. He has published articles in leading economics journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, Economic Letters and World Development.