Xavier Salaimartin

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

Poverty and Competitiveness

Xavier SalaiMartin is the Jerome and Matthew Grossman Professor of Development Economics, Columbia University in New York and a visiting professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He is also the Chief Economic Advisor for the World Economic Forum at Davos. He was formerly the President of Futbol Club Barcelona besides serving as it's treasurer and a member of it's board of directors. He has founded the UMBELE Foundation, a Non-Profit and Non-Government Organization dedicated to help citizens of Africa (www.umbele.org).

Xavier has been the recipient of many awards including the King Juan Carlos I prize (awarded by the Bank of Spain the best economist in Spain and Latin America), the Ken Arrow Prize 2000 (awarded to the best Health Economic paper in the world) and the Godo de Periodismo (awarded to the best newspaper article of the year in Spain). He has a PhD in economics from Harvard university.