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Damien de Walque is Acting Manager and Lead Economist in the Development Research Group (Human Development Team) at the World Bank. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2003. His research interests include health and education and the interactions between them. His current work is focused on evaluating the impact of financial incentives on health and education outcomes.

He has worked on evaluating the impact of HIV/AIDS interventions and policies in several African countries. He is also evaluating the health and education impacts of cash transfers programs in developing countries. On the supply side of health services, he managed a large portfolio of impact evaluations of results-based financing in the health sector leading to the publication the World Bank Policy Research Report, . 

Dena Ringold is the Director of Strategy and Operations for Human Development at the World Bank. Prior to that she held several senior positions at the World Bank including Regional Director for Human Development in the Africa West and Central Region, Practice Manager for the Human Capital Project, and Practice Manager for Social Protection and Jobs in the East and Southern Africa Region. Dena was a core team member of the World Development Report 2013 on Jobs and worked in the Office of the Chief Economist for Human Development, where she focused on the governance of service delivery.

Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. Before starting this position on September 1, 2022, Gill served as the World Bank¡¯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.