Dr. Emmanuel Pinto Moreira is a Director at the African Development Bank (AfDB). Dr. Pinto Moreira, is an economist fully committed to policy oriented and analytical works. He has about 30 years of experience in macro-fiscal, growth, and poverty related works, in middle-income and low-income countries of Middle-East and North Africa, East-Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan African Regions. Before joining AfDB, Dr. Pinto Moreira was the Regional Lead Economist for the Middle East North Africa (MENA) Region at the World Bank Group. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Dr. Pinto Moreira worked at the International Monetary Fund as Senior Economist in the Middle East and Central Asia Department in charge of fiscal issues, and Senior Advisor to the Executive Director for the 24 Francophone African Countries.
Before joining the IMF and the World Bank at the Headquarters in Washington DC, Dr Pinto Moreira was Professor of Economics in France. He taught undergraduate courses in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Statistics at the University of Lorraine (France).
Dr. Pinto Moreira has authored many research papers and publications.