George Gray Molina is Chief Economist for UNDP-Latin America and the Caribbean, based in New York. As an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow, his research focused on pockets of economic growth in low-growth economies. Before coming to Oxford, George was the coordinator of the Human Development Report at UNDP in Bolivia, director of the Unit for Economic Policy Analysis (UDAPE) at the Bolivian Ministry of the Presidency, and director of the Catholic University’s Public Policy Masters Programme. He co-founded a think tank on green development in Bolivia (Instituto Alternativo) and was a research partner of Oxford’s Centre for Research on Inequality, Ethnicity and Human Security (CRISE) as well as a member of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC.

George is co-editor of Tensiones Irresueltas, Bolivia, pasado y presente with Laurence Whitehead and John Crabtree (Plural 2010), La otra frontera (UNDP 2009), El estado del Estado (UNDP 2007), La economia mas alla del gas (UNDP 2005) and author of a number of articles on politics, economics and development. He has a Dphil from the University of Oxford (Politics), an MPP degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (Public Policy) and a BA from Cornell University (Economics and Anthropology).

Email: graymolina[AT]gmail.com