Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis

Maria Eugenia Genoni is a Senior Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. She is currently Global Lead for the Global Solution Group on Data Systems and Statistics Operations and for the Real Time Monitoring of Welfare initiative. She led the 2024 Poverty, Prosperity and Planet Report. She has also led analytical work and operations on statistics, poverty and inequality, and household risk management in the Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Middle East and North Africa regions. Maria’s areas of expertise include poverty measurement and survey design, statistical capacity building, migration and forced displacement, and analytics related to poverty and economic mobility. Prior to joining the World Bank, Maria worked at the Economics Department at Duke University, the Research Department at the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Ministry of Finance of Argentina. She holds a PhD in Economics from Duke University.

Lukas Schlögl is a social scientist specializing in development policy and financing. Since 2022, he has been a Senior Researcher at ÖFSE and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna. His recent research focuses on development finance and policy, green finance, robotization in developing countries, digital politics in Southeast Asia, the relationship between deindustrialization and democracy, and global technology policy discourses.

Dr. Shahroo Malik is an Assistant Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Southern Illinois University (SIU) as a Fulbright Scholar in 2024. She’s also a GDI Development Leadership Scholar and holds an MSc in International Development from the University of Manchester, UK (2016). She has previously worked with the IMF, UNCTAD and the Stimson Center.  Her research interests include International Trade, Climate Change and Macroeconomic Development.