Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the аIJʿª½± Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics.
Before starting this position on September 1, 2022, Gill served as the аIJʿª½±¡¯s Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, where he helped shape the Bank¡¯s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. Between 2016 and 2021, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution¡¯s Global Economy and Development program.
Gill led the аIJʿª½±'s influential 2009 World Development Report on economic geography. His work includes introducing the concept of the ¡°middle-income trap¡± to describe how countries stagnate after reaching a certain level of income. He has published extensively on key policy issues facing developing countries¡ªamong other things, sovereign debt vulnerabilities, green growth and natural-resource wealth, labor markets, and poverty and inequality.
Gill has also taught at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago