Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies
Director, International Inequalities Institute
London School of Economics
Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies at the London School of Economics, where he is also Director of the International Inequalities Institute. His work on the measurement, causes, and consequences of inequality and poverty in developing countries has been published widely and awarded various prizes, including the Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics and the Kendrick Prize from the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.
He is also a nonresident Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and an Affiliated Scholar with the Stone Centers at both the CUNY Graduate Center and the University of Chicago. He currently serves as President Elect of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) and on the United Nations University Council. He is a past President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality. Prior to joining the LSE, Ferreira worked at the World Bank, where his positions included Chief Economist for the Africa Region and Senior Adviser in the Research Department. He has also taught Economics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and at the Paris School of Economics. He was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the LSE.
Areas of Expertise
Inequality of Opportunity
Income and Wage Inequality
Poverty Measurement and Analysis
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 120: Global Estimates of Opportunity and Mobility: A Database
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 117: Inherited Inequality in Latin America
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 82: Inequality of Opportunity and Intergenerational Persistence in Latin America
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 81: Inherited Inequality: A General Framework and an Application to South Africa
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 77: Seventy-Five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 76: Is There a ‘New Consensus’ on Inequality?
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 34: Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India
- Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 33: Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity
- Interview: ‘We Can’t Let Go of the Efforts to Understand Why These Changes Are Taking Place’: Francisco Ferreira on the Future of Inequality Studies
