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Hector Valdes Conroy
Extended Term Consultant
Latin America and the Caribbean Region
The World Bank Group |
Hector Valdes Conroy joined the Bank in September 2007 to work as a consultant for the LCR Companion to the World Development Report 2009 on spatial disparities. His professional and research interests revolve around poverty, inequality, migration, and other issues directly affecting the standards of living of the poorest people.
He was born in Hermosillo (Northwestern Mexico) but grew up in Mexico City. Between ages 17 and 19 he attended the United World College of the Atlantic, in Wales, where he made friends from a large international community as diverse as that of the Bank. There he became aware of the potential of Economics to positively impact the lives of the poorer people and so decided to pursue a career along that discipline. He studied his B.A. at CIDE (Mexico City) and between 2002 and 2007 a Ph.D. at UCLA, specializing on Development Economics.
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