Phillippe Leite is a Senior Social Protection Economist who has been working extensively on support design and implementation of social assistance programs, social registries, and delivery systems in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia regions. Before joining the Social Protection and Labor Global Practice, he worked in the World Bank’s Development Research Group on determinants of poverty and inequality, methodology for poverty maps, and micro-econometric simulation models. He holds a BA and an MS in statistics (Population Studies and Social Research) from the Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas-ENCE (Rio de Janeiro), and a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies and a PhD in economics from DELTA-École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, currently the Paris School of Economics (Paris).