Biography
Martin Rama has been a consultant to the World Bank’s presidency since 2021. Previously, he served as a member of the World Bank’s research department (1992–2002), as the lead economist for Vietnam (2002–10), as the director of its World Development Report (2011–12), and as chief economist for South Asia (2013–19) and Latin America and the Caribbean (2019–21). He earned his economics degree from the Universidad de la República in Uruguay, where he also worked for Centro de Investigaciones Económicas—an independent think tank. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Paris, where for 15 years he taught as a visiting professor in the graduate program in development economics.