Dr. Marcelo Giugale is the World Bank’s Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Latin-America and the Caribbean.
An international development leader, his twenty years of experience span the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. He has led senior-level policy dialogue and over fifteen billion dollars in financing operations across the development spectrum.
He has published widely on economic policy, finance, development economics, business, agriculture, and applied econometrics. Notably, he was the chief editor of collections of policy notes published for the presidential transitions in Mexico (2000), Colombia (2002), Ecuador (2003), Bolivia (2006) and Peru (2006). His opinion editorials have been published in the leading newspapers of Latin America and the USA.
A citizen of Argentina and Italy, he has received decorations from the governments of Bolivia and Peru, and has taught at the American University in Cairo, the London School of Economics, and the Universidad Católica Argentina. He holds a PhD and a MSc from The London School of Economics, and a Suma-cum-Laude BA in Economics from Universidad Católica Argentina.
