Ana Revenga is the Deputy Chief Economist for 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.
Until November 1, 2016, she was the Senior Director of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank. Prior to that, 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.
Ms. Revenga was co-Director of the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, and between 2008 and 2011, she was Director of the Poverty Reduction and Equity Group at the World Bank, serving as the principal spokeperson for the Bank on these issues.
She 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).
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. She has published extensively on education and employment, equity, food security, social protection, poverty, and trade issues, and has worked across a broad spectrum of low, middle and high income countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.
She has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and a degree in Human Rights from the Law Faculty at the University of Geneva.
