Valeria Perotti is the Program Manager of the Doing Business unit at the World Bank. She joined the team in December 2019, after holding several positions within the World Bank, including Senior Economist with the Enterprise Surveys team, where she led the implementation of the survey in East Asia, the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and she analyzed firm-level productivity in conjunction with skills and training issues. Valeria also worked in the former Human Development Network of the World Bank, where she managed the Russia Trust Fund survey to develop methods for measuring financial capability. Valeria holds a PhD in Econometrics and Empirical Economics from Tor Vergata University in Rome, and her research has focused on firm productivity, skills, labor market regulations, informality, life expectancy and applied microeconometrics.

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