Gabriel Demombynes is Senior Economist for poverty issues in the Hanoi, Vietnam office of the World Bank. Previously for the World Bank he has worked on Kenya and South Sudan while based in Nairobi, and on Latin America and Caribbean from Washington. He has taught economic development at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and was Economic Policy Advisor to Howard Dean during his 2003-04 presidential campaign. Gabriel holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley and bachelor's degrees in civil engineering and humanities from the University of Texas at Austin.