Lant Pritchett

Lant Pritchett is an American development economist who currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics School of Public Policy and as co-founder and Research Director of Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP). He previously spent nearly two decades at the World Bank and taught at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was Faculty Chair of the MPA/ID program. He is best known for his research on economic development, state capability, education, and labor mobility, including his proposal for a global upper-bound poverty line of $21.50 per day.