Obert Pimhidzai, PhD, is the Lead Economist for the World Bank Poverty and Equity Global Practice in Europe and Central Asia. He has been leading the World Bank’s country level analytical and technical assistance programs on poverty and equity related issues, ranging from household survey design, poverty measurement and targeting, jobs, social inclusion, social protection, rural development, gender equity and distributional impacts of fiscal policy and macroeconomic policy distortions.
Obert has led pioneering project financing in statistical capacity building such as statistical modernization in Vietnam and large multi-country statistics projects such the Eastern Africa Regional Statistics Project and contributed to design of anti-poverty programs in low- and middle-income countries in East Asia and Africa. He has more than 15 years of accumulated experience working in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and more recently in Central Asia countries.