Luis Iñaki Alberro

Luis Iñaki Alberro

Senior Social Protection Specialist, World Bank

Luis Iñaki Alberro is a Senior Social Protection Specialist at the World Bank with over 15 years of experience in social protection delivery systems, poverty, and financial inclusion. Having joined the Bank in 2021, he has since supported the development of dynamic social registries and digital foundational ID systems in West Africa through the West Africa Unique Identification for Regional Integration Program (WURI) and the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program (SASPP). He previously served as Director General of Geostatistics and Beneficiary Registries in Mexico where he led the implementation of an integrated social information system, consolidating a social registry with an integrated beneficiary registry and a spatial data infrastructure. Before that he worked as a Financial Researcher at Mexico´s Central Bank, and he implemented a G2P payments system through a network of rural banking agents for the conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He also worked as Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago focusing on payment systems. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Economics, University of Chicago as well as a Master in Public Administration in International Development, Harvard Kennedy School.