Christina Wieser is a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity Global Practice, currently based in Pakistan. Her work centers on economic mobility, welfare measurement, and distributional analysis, with a strong emphasis on high-quality data collection to inform evidence-based policymaking. Christina has worked across South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and East and West Africa. She currently focuses on poverty, jobs, and displacement in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Her previous assignments include Ethiopia, where she analyzed the impacts of COVID-19, conflict, and economic reforms, and Afghanistan, where she studied labor market dynamics, youth and women’s inclusion, and reintegration of displaced populations. Before joining the World Bank in 2014, Christina was an Economist at the International Labour Organization and a Management Consultant in the private sector. She holds an MSc in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and an MBA from the University of Memphis.