Lourdes Rodriguez-Chamussy is a Senior Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at The World Bank, where she has worked in the Europe and Central Asia and Latin America and Caribbean regional units. Her work focuses on applied microeconomics, labor markets, political economy of development, and gender. Lourdes led the World Bank Gender Innovation Lab for the LAC region between 2019 and 2021. Before joining the Bank, she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank, the George Washington University, and the Government of Mexico. She has published various articles and reports on poverty measurement, gender gaps in the labor market, poverty impacts of climate shocks, and distributive effects of government investments. She co-authored the book Cashing in on Education: Women, Childcare and Prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean. She holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley.