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  1. Research & Outlook

Staff of the Development Research Group

September 24, 2020

RESEARCH TEAMS

    
FINANCE AND PRIVATE SECTOR    

Manager: Robert Cull

Miriam Bruhn

Xavier Gine

 

Leora Klapper

Martin Kanz

David McKenzie

Alvaro Pedraza

Claudia Ruiz Ortega

L. Colin Xu

Bilal Husnain Zia
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT    

Acting Manager: John Giles

Damien de Walque

S Anukriti

Lelys Dinarte

 

Clement Joubert

Oyebola Okunogbe

Owen Ozier (on leave)

Gil Shapira

Anja Sautmann

 
MACROECONOMICS AND GROWTH  

Manager: Sergio Schmukler

Pierre Bachas

Roberto Fattal Jaef

Stuti Khemani

Tatjana Kleineberg

Mahvish Shaukat

Norman Loayza

Steven Pennings

Rishabh Sinha
POVERTY AND INEQUALITY    

Manager: Berk Özler 

Katy Bergstrom

Benoit Decerf**

Quy-Toan Do

Jed Friedman

Emanuela Galasso

Eeshani Kandpal

Vijayendra Rao

Roy van der Weide

Michael Woolcock
SUSTAINABILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE  

Manager: Michael Toman

Daniel Ayalew Ali

Arnold Patrick Behrer**

Susmita Dasgupta

 

Klaus Deininger

Dorothea Hilhorst

Hanan Jacoby

Alejandro Molnar

Harris Selod

Forhad Shilpi

Jevgenijs Steinbuks

Kibrom Tafere

Govinda Timilsina
TRADE AND INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION  

Manager: Daria Taglioni

Erhan Artuc

Paulo S. R. Bastos (on leave)

Ana Margarida Fernandes

Devaki Ghose

Hiau Looi Kee

Çağlar Özden

Tristan Reed

Bob Rijkers

Roman David Zarate

** Joining 2021

DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH GROUP

The Development Research Group is the World Bank's principal research department. With its cross-cutting expertise on a broad range of topics and countries, the department is one of the most influential centers of development research in the world.

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