africa

Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Bar, he holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva,
and is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and SciencesPo Paris.
Stefan Dercon
Chief Economist, UK Department for International Development; Professor of Development
Economics, Oxford
Stefan Dercon is a development economist applying microeconomics and statistics
to problems of development. His research interests include risk and poverty, the
foundations of growth in poor societies, agriculture and rural institutions, migration,
political economy, childhood poverty, social and geographic mobility, micro-insurance,
and measurement issues related to poverty and vulnerability. Previously, he worked
at the Center for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, and taught at the University
of Addis Ababa, the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, WIDER/UNU in Helsinki,
and Jesus College, Oxford. He has served as an advisor to the World Bank, the
World Food Program, and various national governments. He is an associate editor
of Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and the
World Bank Economic Review. He earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region, The World Bank
Shantayanan Devarajan is Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and
North Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal
Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development
Research Group, and Chief Economist of the Human Development Network and
of the South Asia Region. He was the director of the World Development Report
2004: Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty
of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has authored
or co-authored more than 100 publications. His research covers public economics,
trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling
of developing countries. Dr. Devarajan received his BA in mathematics from
Princeton University and his PhD in economics from the University of California,
Berkeley. He hosts the World Bank’s Africa region blog, Africa Can... End Poverty.
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