Luc Christiaensen is Head of the World Bank Jobs Group’s Jobs and Labor Mobility Center in Rome. He has written extensively about and contributed to policy dialogues on issues related to jobs and inclusion; urbanization and structural transformation; as well as disasters and risk management in Africa, East Asia,  and Europe. He was Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, Finland during 2009-2010. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from Cornell University.