Martin Ravallion holds the inaugural Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics at Georgetown University. Prior to joining Georgetown in 2013 he was Director of the World Bank’s research department, the Development Research Group.
Martin is the ex-President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Non-Resident Fellow of the Center for Global Development and a Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development.
Martin’s main research interests over the last 30 years have concerned poverty and policies for fighting it. His latest book, ”The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement and Policy,” was published by Oxford University Press in January 2016.
