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Ana Revenga

Senior Director, Poverty Global Practice at the World Bank Group

 

 

Ana Revenga is the Senior Director of the Poverty Global Practice at the World Bank Group. In her 24-year career at the World Bank, she has worked in both technical and management positions in the East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa regions, as well as in OECD countries. She has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and a degree in Human Rights from the Law Faculty at the University of Geneva.

Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked in the Central Bank of Spain and taught labor and international economics at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios and Financieros. Until 2014, she was Director of Human Development in the Europe and Central Asia Region and Acting Vice President for the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network at the World Bank.

Ana has published extensively on education and employment, equity, food security, social protection, poverty, and trade issues, and was one of the authors of the 1995 World Development Report, Workers in an Integrating World, and contributed to the 2006 World Development Report, Equity and Development. 

 

 

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