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Bio of Council Members

Francisco H.G. Ferreira is a Lead Economist with the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Chico (as he is known) has published widely on both theoretical and empirical issues related to inequality. His work has appeared in the Review of Income and Wealth, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economic Inequality, Economics of Transition, World Development, the World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Income Distribution, etc. Among other books, he co-edited The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics with Bourguignon and Lustig, and wrote Inequality in Latin America: Breaking with History? (with de Ferranti, Perry and Walton). He was also a co-Director of the team that wrote the World Development Report 2006, on Equity and Development.

Chico holds a B.Sc.(Econ.), M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) between 1999 and 2002. He is currently a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and a former Editor of Economía (the Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association – LACEA). He has also served on the Executive Committee of LACEA, and on Advisory Boards for the Institute of Public Policy at the Universidad de Las Americas in Mexico and the Institute for Labor and Social Studies (IETS) in Brazil. He was a non-resident Research Fellow of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, and a member of the Decentralization Taskforce of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. His current research interests include the measurement of inequality of opportunity; integrated approaches to the analysis of economic growth and distributional dynamics; and various aspects of the political economy of redistribution in developing countries. Chico is a Brazilian citizen, with a Dutch wife and three American children.

Nomination supported by

Andrea Brandolini (Bank of Italy)
Stephen P. Jenkins (University of Essex)
Tim Smeeding (Syracuse University)

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