Francisco H. G. Ferreira

Biography

Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director (designate) of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. He is also affiliated with the Department of Social Policy at LSE. He is also a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn) and an Affiliated Scholar with the Stone Center on Socio Economic Inequality at the City University of New York. He currently serves as Vice President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and has served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality and on other editorial boards. He had a long career at the World Bank, and has taught at PUC Rio and at the Paris School of Economics. He works on the measurement, causes and consequences of inequality and poverty, with an emphasis on developing countries in general and Latin America in particular.