The World Bank has appointed Indermit Gill, an Indian national, as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President for development economics at the multilateral development bank, the second Indian to serve as chief economist at the World Bank. Kaushik Basu was the first, having served in the job from 2012-2016.
Gill spearheaded the influential 2009 World Development Report on Economic Geography. Gill is currently the Vice-President for equitable growth, finance, and institutions at the World Bank and leads the work on macroeconomics, debt, trade, poverty, and governance.
World Bank President David Malpass said, “Indermit Gill brings to this role a combination of leadership, invaluable expertise and practical experience working with country governments on macroeconomic imbalances, growth, poverty, institutions, conflict, and climate change.”
In a Twitter post, Gill said Carmen Reinhart, the preceding chief economist at the Bank had left big shoes to fill. He tweeted: “I’m honoured by the opportunity to follow in her footsteps.” Earlier, Gill was professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution.
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