Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky is a Lead Economist in the Middle East and North Africa Region Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. He has led operations and analytical work on fiscal incidence, social inclusion, risk management and gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa and at the global level. Alan’s research focuses on development economics, applied microeconomics, health economics, insurance and energy and has publications at the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, European Journal of Public Health and British Medical Journal. Prior to joining the Bank Alan worked for UNDP and the Mexican Government. Alan holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, MPA/ID from Harvard, and B.A. in Economics and a MPP from ITAM.