BIO
Pablo Fleiss is a Senior Consultant at the World Bank, where he has collaborated with the Jobs Group, the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice and the Office of the Chief Economist for East Asia and Pacific on topics related to productivity, competitiveness, and trade. Previously, he was a Counselor for the Executive Director for Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia at the Inter-American Development Bank, where he provided technical and strategic advice in the oversight of IDB Group’s corporate and operational activities in Latin America. Pablo also worked at the Statistics Department of the International Labour Organization, being responsible for the Short-Term Indicators Database and coordinating and managing the collection, evaluation, processing, and dissemination of Decent Work Indicators. He has also been a consultant for the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. In Uruguay, he worked at the National Development Corporation and the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining. Pablo holds a BA in Economics from Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) and a PhD in Economics (Summa Cum Laude) for the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). His research focuses on the areas of economic growth, international economics, and development economics. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Introduction to Economics, International Economics, and Econometrics and Methods of Quantitative Analysis. Pablo is an Uruguayan Citizen and lives in Washington, DC.