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Nora Lustig

J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs

1957 E Street, NW 501

Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-5289
Fax: (202) 994-5477
E-mail: nlustig@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Expertise:

Development Economics; Poverty and Income Distribution; Social Policies. Region/Country of Specialization: Latin America/Mexico

Background:

Note: as of August 15, the new contact information for Nora Lustig, Shapiro Visiting Professor (2007-2009) will be:

Nora Lustig
Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics
Department of Economics
Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Ave.
204 Tilton Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
Tel: (504) 862-8347; Fax: (504) 865-5869
nlustig@tulane.edu

Nora Lustig is the Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Dr. Lustig was the Director of the Poverty Group of the United Nations Development Programme. Previously, she was President of the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico, and Professor of its Department of Economics; Senior Advisor and Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, and Professor at the Center of Economic Studies of the Colegio de Mexico. During her sabbaticals, Dr. Lustig spent time as Visiting Scholar at MIT, Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the United Nations Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). She has been a member of the highest level of the Mexican National Researchers System. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 1987 and of several Boards of academic institutions and editorial committees and was President of the "Mexican Commission of Macroeconomics and Health." Dr. Lustig was co-founder and President of LACEA, the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. She has served in high-level search committees and was a co-panelist of the report "An Evaluation of World Bank Research" report, chaired by Professor Angus Deaton.

As a researcher, Dr. Lustig has focused on development economics with particular emphasis on the causes of poverty and inequality; her work has also concentrated on the Mexican economy. Among her publications are: co-edited with Francois Bourguignon and Francisco Ferreira, The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics; Mexico. The Remaking of an Economy (Fondo de Cultura Economica and El Colegio de Mexico; (editor) Shielding the Poor; co-edited with Sebastian Edwards, Labor Markets in Latin America. Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility; co-edited with Barry Bosworth and Susan Collins, Coming Together? Mexico-U.S. Relations; (editor), Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America. Dr. Lustig was also co-Director of the World Bank's 2000/2001 World Development Report "Attacking Poverty". She has also published in many refereed journals.

Her current research is focused on the dynamics of inequality in Latin America; the food price crisis; and constructing a Social Report Card for Latin America.

Dr. Lustig has written many dissemination pieces and made numerous appearances in the electronic media. Her intellectual influence in policy circles is featured in the December 2005 issue of the IMF journal Finance and Development.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Lustig has spent her adult life in Mexico and the United States.

Courses Taught:

IAff 190 Economic Development Policy
IAff 190 Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy
IAff 238 Development Economics

Last update: 7/28/2009