Arti Grover

Arti Grover is a Principal Economist with the Economic Research unit of the International Finance Corporation. Previously, she was a Principal Economist and a Regional programme leader heading the economic research and strategy at the IFC and a Global Lead for Firm Dynamics at the World Bank, where she managed a team of micro-economists and spearheaded major analytical initiatives. Her research encompasses a range of topics covering firm dynamics, trade, productivity, entrepreneurship, and spatial development. She co-authored two of the World Bank’s Productivity Project flagship reports – High-growth firms and Place, Productivity and Prosperity and three books on trade in services. She has published over fifty articles in top peer-reviewed journals such as Economic Journal, Journal of Urban Economics and PNAS, and in World Bank policy research working paper series and book chapters. In the past, Arti has been affiliated with the Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the World Bank in 2009, she was a Doctoral Fulbright fellow at Princeton University and an Assistant Professor at Delhi School of Economics, India.