Mamta Murthi
Mamta Murthi is vice president for human development at the World Bank. She oversees the Global Practices for Education; Health, Nutrition and Population; Gender; Social Protection and Jobs; and the Human Capital Project. An economist by training, she has published extensively on poverty, demography, education, pensions and skills, and is known for her econometric studies on fertility in India. She was deputy director of the World Development Report on Development and the Next Generation in 2006 and MacArthur Fellow for Poverty and Inequality at King’s College, Cambridge during 1998–2000.
