Nora Lustig


Nora Lustig is the Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics in the Department of Economics at Tulane University, the Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University, and a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue.
Nora Lustig was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has spent most of her adult life in the United States and Mexico. She received her doctorate in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career and awards

Lustig was the lead author of the World Development Report 2000/1 “Attacking Poverty”. Analyzing the dynamics of the Mexican economy has been the other main focus of her research. Her study Mexico, the Remaking of an Economy was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book.
As co-founder and president of LACEA, she played a pivotal role in the creation and consolidation of the leading association of economists focused on Latin America, the launching of LACEA’s journal Economia and the organization of LACEA’s Network on Inequality and Poverty. She is affiliated with the Inter-American Dialogue, the Earth Institute and the Institute of Development Studies.
From 2001 to 2005, she served as rector of the University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow & a Project Director for the Commitment to Equity at the Inter-American Dialogue.
In 2016 Lustig received the Lawrence M. v. D. Schloss Prize for Excellence in Research.

Selected publications

Books

Papers for Tulane economics working paper series, Tulane University.