Martin RavallionMartin Ravallion holds the inaugural Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics at Georgetown University, prior to which he was the director of the World Bank's research department. He has advised numerous governments and international agencies on poverty nd policies for fighting it, and he has written extensively on this and other subjects in economics, including four books and 200 papers in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is president of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. Amongst various prizes and awards, in 2012 he was awarded the John Kenneth Galbraith Prize from the American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. Read More Read Less