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The chief economist of the World Bank (full title: Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group) is the senior economist at the World Bank Group, tasked with providing intellectual leadership and direction to the bank's overall international development strategy and economic research agenda, at global, regional and country levels.

As a member of the bank's senior management team, the person advises the president and bank's management on economic issues.

List of chief economists of the World Bank

Name Country Term
Hollis B. Chenery  United States 1972–1982
Anne Osborn Krueger  United States 1982–1986
Stanley Fischer  United States 1988–1990
Lawrence Summers  United States 1991–1993
Michael Bruno  Israel 1993–1996
Joseph Stiglitz  United States February 1997 – February 2000
Nicholas Stern  United Kingdom July 2000 – 2003
François Bourguignon  France 2003–2007
Justin Yifu Lin  China June 2008 – June 2012
Martin Ravallion
Acting 		 Australia June 2012 – October 2012
Kaushik Basu  India October 2012 – October 2016
Paul Romer  United States October 2016 – 24 January 2018
Shanta Devarajan
Acting 		 Sri Lanka 24 January 2018 – 26 November 2018
Penny Goldberg  United States 26 November 2018 – 1 March 2020
Aart Kraay
Acting 		 Canada 1 March 2020 – 15 June 2020
Carmen Reinhart  United States 15 June 2020 – 30 June 2022
Aart Kraay
Acting 		 Canada 30 June 2022 – 1 September 2022
Indermit Gill  India 1 September 2022 – present

See also

References

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