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Indermit Singh Gill was the World Bank Group’s chief economist and the senior vice president for development economics from 2022 to 2026. Before that, he served as the World Bank’s vice president for growth, finance, and institutions. In these roles, he helped shape the bank’s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit the world economy since 2020.

Between 2016 and 2021, Gill was a professor of public policy at Duke University and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program.

Gill led the World Bank’s influential 2009 World Development Report on economic geography. His work includes introducing the concept of the “middle-income trap” to describe how countries stagnate after reaching a certain level of income. He has published extensively on some of the main policy issues facing developing countries, including economic growth, social security, sovereign debt, natural resource wealth, labor markets, and poverty reduction.

He has a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

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