World Bank Chief Economist
The Chief Economist of the World Bank is the senior economist at the World Bank Group, tasking 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.- Hollis B. Chenery: 1972–1982
- Anne Osborn Krueger: 1982–1986
- Stanley Fischer: 1988–1990
- Lawrence Summers: 1991–1993
- Michael Bruno: 1993–1996
- Joseph Stiglitz: 1997–2000
- Nicholas Stern: 2000–2003
- François Bourguignon: 2003–2007
- Justin Yifu Lin: June 2008 – June 2012
- Martin Ravallion: June 2012 – October 2012
- Kaushik Basu: October 2012 – October 2016
- Paul Romer: October 2016 – January 2018
- Shanta Devarajan: January 2018 – November 2018
- Penny Goldberg: November 2018 – February 2020
- Aart Kraay: March 2020 – June 2020
- Carmen Reinhart: appointed to begin June 15, 2020
