[vc_row width=”stretch_row” full_width=”” vsc_row_type=”” bg_image=”” bg_color=”” vsc_id=”about”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”4077″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”left-to-right”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”7/12″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR. LUIS FELIPE LÓPEZ-CALVA” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left|color:%23b4252b”][vc_custom_heading text=”UN Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean United Nations Development Programme.” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left”][vc_separator color=”grey”][vc_column_text]
Luis Felipe López Calva, ASG, is the UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean since September 2018. He has nearly 30 years of professional experience, advising several Mexican governments, in addition to UNDP and most recently the World Bank where he most recently served as Practice Manager of the Poverty and Equity Global Practice (Europe and Central Asia). He was the co-director and lead author of the World Development Report 2017 on “Governance and the Law”. He was previously Lead Economist and Regional Poverty Advisor in the Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region, and Lead Economist at the Poverty, Equity and Gender Unit in the Latin America and Caribbean PREM Directorate, also at the World Bank. From 2007-2010, he served as Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNDP-RBLAC in New York. Mr. López-Calva has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and he is Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. He has also been Chair of the Network on Inequality and Poverty in the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Association.
His research interests focus on labour markets, poverty and inequality, institutions and microeconomics of development, having presented his research at top institutions including: Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Diego; and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Centre. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Boston University, as well as a master’s and a doctorate in economics from Cornell University.
Born in Mexico, he is married and has three children.
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