Arturo Franco is Director, Group Strategy Office at the World Bank, providing leadership and support in setting strategic priorities across the institution. To this role, Arturo brings extensive experience from the private sector, international organizations, and development policy arenas.
Before joining the World Bank, Arturo served as Senior Vice President, Thought Leadership at Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, as a senior advisor for McKinsey & Company’s global public and social policy practice, and as executive director of the Planning Council of the State of Nuevo Leon, where he also served as Undersecretary.
Previously, Arturo was Global Leadership Fellow for Latin America at the World Economic Forum, economics research fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Arturo holds economics degrees from Monterrey Tec in Mexico and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was also vice chair of the Alumni Board. His essays and books have been published by the Brookings Institution, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Atlantic Council, and the Policy Network.