UNDP appoints Luis Felipe López-Calva to Leadership Team

June 6, 2018
New York, USA

The CEQ Institute wishes to congratulate Advisory Board member Luis Felipe López-Calva for his appointment as director of UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean.

From UNDP announcement:

Mr. Luis López-Calva is currently the Practice Manager of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice (Europe and Central Asia) at the World Bank. He was the co-director and lead author of the World Development Report 2017 on “Governance and the Law”. He was previously Lead Economist and Regional Poverty Advisor in the Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region, and Lead Economist at the Poverty, Equity and Gender Unit in the Latin America and Caribbean PREM Directorate, also at The World Bank. From 2007-2010, he served as Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNDP in New York.

Mr. López-Calva has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and he is Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. He has also been President of the Network on Inequality and Poverty in the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Association. His research interests focus on labor markets, poverty and inequality, institutions and microeconomics of development. He has presented his research at top institutions including: Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-San Diego, and the OECD Development Center. He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Boston University, as well as a Master’s and a PhD in Economics from Cornell University.