Rita Almeida

Rita K. Almeida (born 1974) is a Portuguese economist who joined the World Bank in 2002 as a research economist. After serving as a senior economist with responsibilities for lending and analysis in support of education in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa, as of June 2020 she is human development programme leader for the countries of Central America. Over the years, Almeida has coordinated a range of World Bank and IZA publications in the areas of education, job training and public social spending. Since 2003, she has been a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

Biography Born on 16 August 1974 in Lisbon, Rita Almeida studied economics at the Catholic University of Portugal, graduating in 1997. She continued her economics studies at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, earning an M.Sc. (1999) and a Ph.D. (2003).