Nora Lustig

Visiting Fellow
Lustig is J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Her previous positions include director of the Poverty Group at UNDP; president and professor of the Department of Economics of the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico; 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. Her research focuses on poverty and inequality, social policies and social protection with particular emphasis on Latin America. Lustig's activities at CGD include organizing and chairing twice-monthly international conference calls for the CGD Financial Crisis Monitor.