Senior Economist, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice, World Bank

Hector Pollitt is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice at the World Bank. His work focuses on the interactions between climate change, climate change policy, and economic development in East and Southeast Asia. He contributes to the World Bank’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) and climate inputs to other products in the same region, covering both adaptation and mitigation strategies.

Prior to joining the World Bank, he was Head of Modelling and Chief Economist at Cambridge Econometrics in the UK. He has extensive experience of macroeconomic modelling for climate and energy policy analysis.

Hector holds a BSc in mathematics and economics from the University of Nottingham, UK. He is currently completing a PhD on integrating complexity to standard economics frameworks at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK.