Sailesh Tiwari is a Lead Economist for the Poverty Global Practice in the East Asia and the Pacific Region of the World Bank. His work focuses broadly on identifying the drivers of inclusive growth and supporting the development and implementation of policies to foster shared prosperity. He has led the World Bank’s engagements on poverty and economic mobility related issues across South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Europe and Central Asia with thematic work spanning distributional analysis of fiscal policy, urbanization and spatial development, digital economy, and food and nutrition security. Sailesh holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University, M.Sc. in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economic and a BA in Economics from Connecticut College.