Christoph Lakner

Christoph Lakner is the Program Manager for Global Poverty and Inequality Data in the Development Data Group (Data Analytics team) at the World Bank. His research interests include inequality, poverty, and labor markets in developing countries. He is also involved in the World Bank’s global poverty monitoring. Christoph leads the Global Poverty and Inequality Data team in the Development Data Group, which co-produces the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), the home of the World Bank’s global poverty numbers. He served as co-lead of the Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis.

Christoph holds a D.Phil., M.Phil., and B.A. in Economics from the University of Oxford.