Esha Zaveri is a Senior Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist of the Sustainable Development Practice at the World Bank. Before this, she was a senior economist at the World Bank's Water Global Practice and a core team member of the Water, Economics, and Climate Change Global Solutions Group. Her work centers around water resource management, climate impacts, and environmental health and spans from global to region- and country-level assessments in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. She has published on these topics in leading scientific journals and authored numerous flagship reports of the World Bank, including on water scarcity (Uncharted Waters, 2017), water pollution (Quality Unknown, 2019), environmentally harmful subsidies (Detox Development, 2023), and droughts (Droughts and Deficits, 2023). She has also led flagship reports on water, migration, and development (Ebb & Flow, 2021) and recently on the economics of groundwater (The Hidden Wealth of Nations, 2023). Before joining the World Bank, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Center on Food Security and the Environment, where she remains an affiliated scholar. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics and Demography from Pennsylvania State University.