Aart Kraay is the Chief Economist of the Prosperity Vertical at the World Bank, which covers the Bank's analytical and policy work on macroeconomics and growth, poverty and inequality, trade and private sector development, governance and institutions, and the financial sector.
He joined the World Bank in 1995 after earning a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University (1995), and a B.Sc. in economics from the University of Toronto (1990). His research interests include macroeconomics in developing countries, international capital movements, the links between growth, poverty and inequality, and governance and institutions.
His research on these topics has been published in scholarly journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of the European Economic Association.
He is a member of the editorial board of the World Bank Research Observer and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Economics and the World Bank Economic Review. He has also held visiting positions at the International Monetary Fund and the Sloan School of Management at MIT and has taught at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.