Advisory Board
CHAIRS
Nora Lustig
Director of CEQ, Samuel Z. Stone Professor, Latin American Economics, Tulane University, and Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue
Peter Hakim
President Emeritus, Inter-American Dialogue
MEMBERS
Alicia Barcena
Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Jere Behrman
W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Birdsall
Former President, Center for Global Development
François Bourguignon
Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics
Otaviano Canuto
Senior Advisor on BRICS Economies, World Bank
Mauricio Cárdenas
Former Minister of Finance, Colombia
Luis Fernando Carrera Castro
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Guatemala
Kevin Casas-Zamora
Former Secretary for Political Affairs, Organization of American States
Luis Miguel Castilla Rubio
Manager, Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness, Inter-American Development Bank
Rolando Cordera Campos
Professor Emeritus of Economics, and Coordinator, Centro de Estudios Globales y de Alternativas para el Desarrollo de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Augusto de la Torre
Former Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank
Ludovico Feoli
Executive Director, CIPR (Center for Inter-American Policy & Research), Tulane University
Francisco Ferreira
Senior Advisor in the World Bank’s Development Research Group and Former Chief Economist, Sub-Saharan Africa Region, World Bank
Ariel Fiszbein
Senior Fellow and Director, Education Program, Inter-American Dialogue
Juan Alberto Fuentes Knight
Chair of the Board, Oxfam International
Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaini (RIP)
Former Deputy of Security and Tax Policy, Argentina
Carol Graham
Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and College Park Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
George Gray Molina
Former Chief Economist, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations Development Programme
Rebeca Grynspan
Secretary General of Ibero American Conference (SEGIB) and Former Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
Miguel Jaramillo
Executive Director, GRADE (Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo), Peru
Santiago Levy
Former Vice President, Sectors and Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva
Director of Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP
Mario Marcel
Governor of Central Bank, Chile
Jonathan Menkos Zeissig
Executive Director, Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales, Guatemala
Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Judith Morrison
Senior Advisor, Gender and Diversity Unit, Inter-American Development Bank
Hugo Noé Pino
Former Executive Director, Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales, Guatemala
José Antonio Ocampo
Professor of Professional Practice, and Director, Program in Economic and Political Development, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Daniel Ortega
Director of Impact Evaluation and Policy Learning, CAF (Latin American Development Bank)
Guillermo Perry
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
Carola Pessino
Principal Fiscal Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank
Jeffrey Puryear
Senior Fellow, Inter-American Dialogue
Jaime Saavedra
Senior Director, Education Global Practice, World Bank
Ana María Sanjuan
Secretariat and External Relations, CAF (Latin American development bank), Venezuela
Amb. Arturo Sarukhan
President, Sarukhan & Associates LLC
John Scott
Professor and Researcher, CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas), Mexico, and Academic Advisor, CONEVAL (Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social), Mexico
Michael Shifter
President, Inter-American Dialogue
Vito Tanzi
Honorary President, International Institute of Public Finance
Andras Uthoff
Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile
Nora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQ) at Tulane University. Professor Lustig’s research focuses on economic development, poverty and inequality, and social policies in developing countries. She is also a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue. She has published more than seventy articles and fifteen edited volumes and books. Her current research is centered on assessing the impact of taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in low and middle income countries, and on the determinants of income distribution in Latin America. Prof. Lustig is a founding member and past president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and was a co-director of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000, Attacking Poverty. She is the editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality Forum and a member of Society for the Study of Economic Inequality’s Executive Council. Prof. Lustig has served on the Atkinson Commission on Poverty and on the High-level Group on Measuring Economic Performance and Social Progress. Prof. Lustig serves on the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance. In July 2021, the General Assembly of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) appointed Nora Lustig as President-elect of the organization. Professor Lustig is the first woman President-elect. Her term is for the period 2023-2025. In November 2021, she was recognized with the Tulane University Innovation Award. She received her doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. 