Researchers

Ricardo Fort Meyer

Senior Researcher
PhD in Economic Development - Wageningen University
rfort@grade.org.pe

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Ricardo Fort is an economist with a Master in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), where he works on projects related to the economic development of rural areas as well as marginal urban neighborhoods in Peru and in several other countries.

In recent years he has been Visiting Researcher at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and The University of Chicago in the United States. He is the author of several books and academic articles on these subjects and has worked as a consultant for institutions such as the World Bank, the United Nations, FAO, the Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, among others.