Nora Lustig is Professor Emerita of Economics and the founding Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQ) at Tulane University, and Visiting Professor at El Colegio de México. She is also a nonresident scholar at the Brookings Institution, the Center for Global Development, the Georgetown University Americas Institute, the Paris School of Economics, and the Stone Center on Socioeconomic Inequality.
Her research focuses on economic development, inequality, and social policies, with particular emphasis on Latin America. She has published more than ninety articles and fifteen edited volumes and books. Her most recent publication, Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty, provides a step-by-step guide to assessing how taxation and social spending affect inequality and poverty in developing countries.
Professor Lustig co-chairs the UN High-level Expert Group on Beyond GDP. She is a former President of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) and President Emeritus of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Inequality.
She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2021 was honored with the Tulane University Innovation Award.