
Lydia (Ypsse) Kim
Lydia Kim is an extended term consultant in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, where she works on issues related to poverty and inequality in the East Asia and Pacific region with a particular focus on China and Mongolia. Prior to this position, she was based in Yangon, Myanmar, contributing to capacity building, poverty measurement, and impact evaluation efforts. Before joining the Bank, Lydia was a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, J-PAL, and Harvard Business School.

María Ana Lugo
María Ana Lugo is a Senior Economist at EAP Poverty and Equity GP for China, based in Washington DC, and a Global Lead of the Equity Policy Lab. She joined the Bank in 2011, and her work has focused mostly on poverty and inequality measurement and analysis, inequality of opportunities and economic mobility, distributional incidence of fiscal policies, and more recently, on poverty reduction and economic transformation in China. Prior to working on East Asia, she worked on Latin America and on the Middle East.

Andrew Mason
Andrew Mason is Deputy Chief Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank. Prior to joining the Chief Economist’s Office, Mr. Mason served as Manager of the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice for the Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region. During his career, Mr. Mason has worked on a range of development issues, including poverty reduction, gender equality, labor and skills, and social protection. He is co-author of several World Bank flagship studies, including The Innovation Imperative for Developing East Asia; A Resurgent East Asia: Navigating a Changing World; Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific; Informality: Exit and Exclusion, a Latin America and Caribbean regional study; and, Engendering Development – Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, a World Bank Policy Research Report. Mr. Mason has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

Ikuko Uochi
Ikuko Uochi is an Economist at the East Asia & Pacific (EAP) region of Poverty and Equity Global Practice. She currently leads the team for statistical development in EAP as well as poverty and inequality work program for Mongolia. Prior to this position, she worked on poverty analysis and the Bank’s operations for Indonesia and Myanmar.