Gero Carletto is the Senior Manager in the Development Data Group at the World Bank and the Interim Director of the World Bank Group’s Institute for Economic Development (IED), a new initiative in the office of the WBG Chief Economist to make development knowledge more accessible and actionable.

For over fifteen years, Gero has managed the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), the flagship household survey program at the World Bank. In 2015, Gero founded and directed the Center for Development Data, a Rome-based hub that fosters methodological innovation and strengthens countries’ capacity in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of socio-economic data.  

Gero is currently the Chair of the Committee on Agricultural Statistics of the International Statistical Institute and the Co-chair of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys of the United Nations Statistical Commission. He has published extensively in top economic and development journals on various topics, including poverty, food security, agriculture, and rural development, as well as data collection methods and measurement issues. 

Gero holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.