Luis F. Lopez-Calva is the co-Director of the World Development Report 2017: “Governance and The Law”. Prior to his vo-director position, he was Lead Economist and Regional Poverty Advisor in the Europe and Central Asia Region at The World Bank (Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector). Until 2013, he was Lead Economist at the Poverty, Equity and Gender Unit in the Latin America and Caribbean PREM Directorate, also at The World Bank. He served as Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in New York from 2007 to 2010. He has been an Ivy League Exchange Scholar in the Economics Department at Harvard University, as well as Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Development at Stanford University and the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), in Helsinki. In Mexico, he was Associate Professor and Chair of the Masters in Public Economics at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus. López-Calva also taught at Universidad de la Américas, Puebla and El Colegio de México. He is a Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. His work has more than 2800 citations, as of February 2016, and IDEAS RepEc reported him as a top-5% author with respect to number of downloads. The World Bank Open Access Repository ranks him among the top 20 authors in The World Bank. López-Calva holds a Masters Degree in Economics from Boston University, and a Masters and a PhD in Economics from Cornell University. His publications and research interests focus on labor markets, poverty and inequality, institutions and development economics.