Ana Maria Munoz Boudet is a senior social scientist in the World Bank’s Poverty Global Practice. She has worked on gender, poverty and inequality issues in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia and the Africa regions. Ms. Munoz Boudet is a co-author of the World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality and Development. She holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and doctorate studies from the University College of London.