Luis Felipe López-Calva, assistant secretary general, is the United Nations Development Programme 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 World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region, and lead economist at the Poverty, Equity and Gender Unit in the Latin America and Caribbean Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Directorate, also at the World Bank. From 2007-2010, he served as chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNDP Regional Bureau on Latin America and the Caribbean in New York. 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.
López-Calva was an event speaker at the Dialogue.