Maria Eugenia Genoni is currently a Senior Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank. She is currently Global Lead for the Global Solution Group on Distributional Impacts of Fragility and Conflict and for the Real Time Monitoring of Welfare initiative. She has led analytical work and operations on statistics, poverty and inequality, and household risk management in the Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Middle East and North Africa regions. Maria’s areas of expertise include poverty measurement and survey design, statistical capacity building, migration and forced displacement, and analytics related to poverty and economic mobility. Prior to joining the World Bank, Maria worked at the Economics Department at Duke University, the Research Department at the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Ministry of Finance of Argentina. She holds a PhD in Economics from Duke University.
