Augusto Lopez-Claros is an international economist and the Executive Director of the Global Governance Forum. He has authored several books on global governance reform and is currently leading the Forum’s initiative to draft a Second United Nations Charter. With over 30 years of experience in international organizations, he most recently... Read more
Augusto Lopez-Claros is an international economist and the Executive Director of the Global Governance Forum.
He has authored several books on global governance reform and is currently leading the Forum’s initiative to draft a Second United Nations Charter. With over 30 years of experience in international organizations, he most recently served as Director of the Global Indicators Group at the World Bank. Prior to that, he was Chief Economist at the World Economic Forum, where he directed the Global Competitiveness Program and edited the Forum’s flagship Global Competitiveness Report. Earlier in his career, he worked in London’s financial sector with a focus on emerging markets.
During the 1990s, he served as the International Monetary Fund’s Resident Representative in Russia and later became a Senior Fellow at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Educated in the UK and the U.S., he holds a diploma in Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University.
His recent publications include Removing Impediments to Sustainable Economic Development: The Case of Corruption (2015), Equality for Women = Prosperity for All (2018, St. Martin’s Press), and Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century (2020, Cambridge University Press). His latest book, Global Governance and International Cooperation: Managing Global Catastrophic Risks in the 21st Century, coedited with Richard Falk, was published by Routledge in 2024.
He has lectured widely at leading universities, think tanks, and international organizations.