Ruslan Yemtsov has joined the Social Protection and Jobs team working for West and Central Africa in August, 2022. He is currently engaged in Program for Results development and implementation in Cote d’Ivoire and Togo, in Climate Change Development Reports, Human Capital Reviews, and energy subsidy reform dialogue in countries of the region. He started working in the World Bank as a Consultant for Economic Development Institute and then as a Young Professional in 1996. Over his career at the World Bank he has authored reports, books and research articles on poverty, inequality, labor market and political economy of reform, including close to 30 poverty assessments, publications in scientific journals and co-authored the World Bank Studies on transition economies, subsidy reforms, social transfers assessments, universal basic income and nexus between social safety nets, inequality and economic growth. For a number of years, he was directing the Social Safety Nets Core Course, was co-leading South-South Fora, and LSMS training courses on poverty data analytics. He brings to the team the experience of working on fiscal and income distribution analysis, targeting, impact evaluations, climate change, food crisis responses, gender sensitive design of social safety nets, and labor market reforms.
