Christoph Lakner is the Program Manager for Global Poverty and Inequality Data in the Development Data Group (Data Analytics team) at the World Bank. He was born and raised in Germany, and holds a DPhil, MPhil and BA in Economics from the University of Oxford. His research interests include poverty and inequality measurement, especially from a global perspective. He leads the Global Poverty and Inequality Data team in the Development Data Group, which is responsible for the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), the home of the World Bank’s global poverty numbers. He served as co-lead of the Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis. 

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