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Nora C. Lustig

Nora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University and non'resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue. Prior to joining Tulane, she was Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. Dr. Lustig has served as the Director of the Poverty Group of the United Nations Development Programme; President of the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico, and Professor in 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. Dr. Lustig also 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. She has been a member of the highest level of the Mexican National Researchers System and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 1987. Dr. Lustig was co-founder and President of LACEA, the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association.

As a researcher, Lustig has focused on development economics, with particular emphasis on the causes of poverty and inequality in Latin America. Among her publications are Declining Inequality in Latin America: a Decade of Progress? The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics;  Mexico. The Remaking of an Economy; Shielding the Poor; Labor Markets in Latin America. Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility; and Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America. She was co-director of the World Development Report 2000/1 Attacking Poverty and served as President of the Mexican Commission of Macroeconomics and Health.

Dr. Lustig serves on several editorial boards. She has 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, Lustig has spent her adult life in Mexico and the United States. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.