Alan Fuchs

Alan Fuchs is a Lead Economist for the World Bank Group’s Regional Poverty and Equity Department for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Previously he held various positions in the World Bank, including Senior Economist in the Poverty and Equity Department for Europe and Central Asia, Senior Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Global Lead for the Global Solutions Group on Fiscal and Social Policies. His research focuses on development economics, applied microeconomics, health economics, insurance, and energy and has been published in the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the European Journal of Public Health, and the British Medical Journal. Prior to joining the Bank, Alan worked for UNDP and for the Mexican Government.

At the World Bank, he has led operations, technical work, and policy dialogue on poverty and inequality, fiscal incidence, social inclusion, risk management, climate shocks, energy, and gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, and at the global level. He has also led regional studies on the inequality of opportunities, social mobility, energy subsidy reform, distributional impacts of air pollution, and global public goods on poverty and vulnerability measurement. He holds a PhD from the University of California Berkeley, an MPA/ID from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. in Economics and a MPP from ITAM, Mexico.