Martin Rama is currently the World Bank's Chief Economist for the Latin America and Caribbean region. From 2013 to 2018, he held the same position for the South Asia region based in Delhi, India. He was director of the 2013 World Development Report (WDR), whose central theme was employment. From 2002 to 2010, he was in Hanoi where he led the World Bank's economic program for Vietnam. Before working in the operational area, he spent ten years in the World Bank's research department.
Martin Rama obtained his BA in Economics from the University of the Republic (Uruguay) in 1981 and a Ph.D. in macroeconomics from the Université de Paris I (France) in 1985. He is affiliated with several research centers in developing countries. In parallel with his duties at the World Bank, from 1990 to 2005, he was a visiting professor at the degree program in economic development at the Université de Paris.
