Dr. Mamta Murthi

Vice President, People

Dr. Mamta Murthi has served as Vice President for People (Human Development) at the World Bank Group since July 2020. In this role she oversees the Bank's Global Practices for Education; Health, Nutrition, and Population; Gender; and Social Protection and Jobs, and leads the Human Capital Project, one of the Bank's flagship initiatives for measuring and strengthening countries' investments in people. Murthi joined the World Bank in 1995 as a Young Professional and has held a series of senior positions: Director of Operations Policy in 2019, Director of Strategy and Operations in Infrastructure in 2018, Director of Strategy and Operations in the Africa Region from 2015 to 2018, and Regional Country Director for the European Union, based in Brussels, from 2012 to 2015. Earlier, she held technical roles in Social Protection and Labor (1996-2004) and in Education (2006-2010), and served as Deputy Director of the World Development Report on Development and the Next Generation in 2007. Murthi holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, India, and a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She was a MacArthur Fellow for Poverty and Inequality at King's College, Cambridge, between 1998 and 2000. She has published extensively on poverty, demography, education, pensions, and skills, and is internationally recognised for her econometric studies on fertility in India and its drivers of decline. She is regarded as a leading global voice in shaping policies for human capital.