I am an Economist-ETC in the Governance and Institution Building Program of the World Bank’s Development Impact (DIME) group, a member of the World Bank’s Bureaucracy Lab, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Brazil’s National School of Public Administration. My research interests lie at the intersection of public management, development, and public economics.

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I received a Ph.D. in Economics from PUC-Rio. Before joining the World Bank, I served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Innovations for Poverty Action in Mexico, worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank in Brazil, and held analyst positions in the private sector in Argentina. I was born and raised in Balcarce, Argentina.

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You can contact me at juanfranciscosantini [at] gmail.com or jfsantini [at] worldbank.org

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