Jesko Hentschel
Affiliate Professor
[email protected] Téléchager le CVJesko Hentschel is an Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
He teaches courses on Global Economic Development and Poverty & Social Policy.
Prior to joining UM6P, Dr. Hentschel was with the World Bank for more than 30 years. At the World Bank, he specialized in poverty reduction policies, inclusive employment growth and human development and worked in the Africa, Europe and Central Asia, MENA, South Asia and the Latin America and Caribbean regions. In 2012, he assumed the role as deputy director of the World Development Report 2013 that focused on Jobs.
The positions he held in the World Bank included Regional Country Director for the Maghreb and Malta, Regional Country Director for Latin America’s Southern Cone and
Sector Director for Human Development in South Asia. Dr. Hentschel is a research fellow with IZA, Institute of Labor Economics.
He has published in refereed journals on poverty measurement, household welfare analysis, contextual research methods, poverty mapping, skills development, and jobs. He holds graduate degrees in agricultural economics (University of Wisconsin-Madison), international economics (University of Konstanz) and social policy (London School of Economics).
