François Bourguignon

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François Bourguignon (born May 22, 1945) is the Chief Economist of the World Bank.

Bourguignon is a French national and studied at the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique (ENSAE) and the University of Paris VI, where he earned a post-graduate degree in Applied Mathematics (1973). He went on to earn a Ph.D. and the Merrit Brown Award for the best thesis at the University of Western Ontario, Canada (1975), and a Doctorate in Economics at the University of Orleans (1979).

He was also the professor of Economics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and founded and directed the Département et laboratoire d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (DELTA), a research unit in theoretical and applied economics.

Since his appointment in October 2003 as the World Bank's Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist (often just referred to as the Chief Economist), he has contributed to placing economic growth and its relationship with inequalities, and evaluation of the development impact of programs and policies at the center of the Bank’s research agenda.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

- Handbook of Income Distribution (edited with Anthony Atkinson), North-Holland, 2000. - The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools (edited with Luiz Pereira da Silva), World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2003 - The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America. (edited with Francisco Ferreira and Nora Lustig), World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2004