Maria Ana Lugo

María Ana Lugo is a senior economist at the East Asia & Pacific (EAP) Poverty and Equity and a Global Lead of the Equity Policy Lab. Her work focuses mostly on poverty and inequality measurement and analysis, inequality of opportunities and economic mobility, distributional incidence of fiscal policies, and more recently, on poverty reduction and economic transformation in China. Prior to working on East Asia, she worked on Latin America and on the Middle East. She joined the World Bank in 2011. 

She has published in journals such as Review of Income and Wealth, The World Bank Research Observer, Economica, Econometric Reviews and Oxford Development Studies, among others. Prior to joining the World Bank, she was a postdoctoral fellow in economics at the University of Oxford, a researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, a tutor at Brasenose College, and a researcher at the Universidad de General Sarmiento in Argentina. She holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.