Professor Francisco Ferreira

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. Francisco is an economist working on the measurement, causes, and consequences of inequality and poverty in developing countries. His work has been published widely and been 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 non-resident Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and an Affiliated Scholar with the Stone Centers at the City University of New York and at the University of Chicago. He is a past president of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality, and currently serves on the United Nations University Council. Prior to joining the LSE, Francisco had a long career 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 in the faculties of 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 PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.