Carlos Sobrado

Carlos Sobrado Economist Latin America and the Caribbean Region The World Bank Group

Carlos Sobrado is a Costa Rican national who has been working at the World Bank, originally as a consultant (1996) and later as an economist (since 1998).  Carlos is an Agronomist from El Zamorano (Honduras 1982), with a master’s degree in agricultural economics (U. of Kentucky, 1993).  His work at the Bank focuses on poverty measurement and analysis for the design and improvement of social policies and programs aimed at poverty reduction, mainly in Central America, the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Kazakhstan.  Carlos has taught several courses in poverty measurement (consumption and income aggregates and poverty lines) and poverty maps and has provided direct capacity building to Statistics Institutes and planning agencies in Latin America.  From 2004 to 2007 he was assigned to Costa Rica at the RUTA project where he was designated as the Central American Gender Focal Point for the World Bank.  Carlos is the proud father of two girls (Carla and Melisa) and a boy (Carlos Andres).   His wife Liliana was born in Colombia.