Alan Fuchs is a Senior Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank and the Lead of the Global Solutions Group of Fiscal and Social Policies. He has led operations and analytical work on social inclusion, risk management and fiscal incidence in Latin America and the Caribbean and in Europe and Central Asia. Alan’s research focuses on development economics, applied microeconomics, health economics, insurance and energy and has publications at the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, British Medical Journal. Prior to joining the Bank Alan worked for UNDP and the Mexican Government. Alan holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, MPA/ID from Harvard and B.A. in Economics and a MPP from ITAM, México.