Francisco H. G. Ferreira

Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Deputy Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank. He is on leave from the Bank's Research Department, where he is a Lead Economist. He has published widely in the fields of poverty, inequality, and the political economy of development. He is a Research Fellow of IZA (Bonn) and a regular Île-de-France Visiting Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He was also a co-Director of the team that wrote the World Development Report 2006, on Equity and Development. Prior to joining the World Bank’s Research Department, Francisco was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Review of Income and Wealth, the World Bank Economic Review and the Economic Analysis Review. He was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.