Arturo Franco
Current affiliations
- Special Advisor, Development Policy and Partnerships, The World Bank
- Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
- Lecturer, Global Inequality, Master of Global Affairs and Master of Public Policy
- Chair, United States and Canada Board of Trustees, Article 19
Areas of interest
- Innovation
- Financial inclusion
Biography
Arturo Franco is a development economist and strategy consultant. His career combines high-level positions in Fortune 500 corporations and global organizations, with public policy and international development experience.
Before joining the World Bank, Arturo served as Senior Vice President, Thought Leadership at Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, as a senior advisor for McKinsey & Company’s global public and social policy practice, and as executive director of the Planning Council of the State of Nuevo Leon, where he also served as Undersecretary. Over the past years, Arturo has been Global Leadership Fellow for Latin America at the World Economic Forum, economics research fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Arturo holds economics degrees from Monterrey Tec in Mexico and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was also vice chair of the Alumni Board. His essays and books have been published by the Brookings Institution, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Atlantic Council, and the Policy Network.