Eliana Carranza

Eliana Carranza is Global Lead for Labor and Skills at the World Bank Social Protection and Jobs Practice. She works with country and sector teams across the World Bank, leading policy dialogue and analytic programs; supporting the design of investment financing projects; and developing and testing novel pilot approaches to create more jobs, connect people to jobs, and increase the quality of jobs. Eliana is also a non-resident Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn). From 2019 to 2022, she was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School. She holds an MPA in International Development and a PhD in Political Economy and Government (Economics) from Harvard University.