Shanta Devarajan

Shanta Devarajan is the Senior Director for Development Economics (DEC) and Acting Chief Economist of the World Bank Group^[1].

Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he was the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa Region. he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, the South Asia Region and Africa Region. He had served as a director of the World Development Report 2004. Mr. Devarajan’s research covers public economics, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries.

He was on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. A member of the Overseas Development Institute’s Board of Trustees, and the author or co-author of more than 100 publications. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

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