Łukasz Marć is a Senior Economist in the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, working in the Europe and Central Asia region. He specializes in the development of the private and research sectors, including in innovation, productivity, industry-research collaboration, startup ecosystems, technology adoption and greening of enterprises. His most recent projects focused on the transformation of the research sector in Romania, energy efficiency and competitiveness of the Romanian industry, measuring the return of public innovation support for enterprises in Poland and its impact on firms' digitalization in Poland and Romania, public expenditure review of science research, technology adoption and innovation in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia.
Prior to the World Bank, Łukasz worked as a Youth Forward Learning Partnership manager and a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London, adjunct professor at the Vistula University in Warsaw and as an analyst at the Institute for Structural Research in Warsaw. He has a master’s degree in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, and a PhD in development economics from the VU University Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute. During his PhD studies, he was a visiting researcher at the United Nations University WIDER in Helsinki. Łukasz has country project experience in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, and Kenya.