Ariel Fiszbein | World Bank Institute (WBI)

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Ariel Fiszbein

World Bank

Ariel Fiszbein is Chief Economist for the Human Development Network at the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 1991, where he started his career as Country Economist for Colombia. He has held several positions including coordinator of the poverty reduction team at the World Bank Institute, coordinator of the Bank’s program in human development for the southern cone countries in Latin America, Lead Economist in the Human Development Department for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Adviser to the Bank’s Chief Economist and senior Vice-President for Development Economics. In the latter position, for several years he coordinated the Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation Initiative (DIME).

He has published extensively on a range of issues in social policy. Most recently he co-authored Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty. He has taught at the Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires and was the secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) between 1998 and 2005.

He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Read his article, Not a Popularity Contest: Bringing Rigor to Open Development.