Klaus Deininger
Lead Economist
Development Research Group
World Bank

Biography
Klaus Deininger, is a Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group. His research focuses on income and asset inequality, including land, poverty reduction, and growth. He has published extensively on land ownership and tenure and their impact on welfare, female empowerment, structural transformation, sustainability, and public service delivery. In addition to having organizing the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty since 1999, he also published several books on land tenure, large scale land acquisition, and participatory country-level assessment of land governance to help guide World Bank operations. He is a German national with a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Agricultural Economics from the University of Berlin, and an MA in theology from the University of Bonn.