Mr. Luis Alton
Mr. Luis Alton
Senior Financial Sector Specialist,
Finance Services Sector, World Bank
Luis Alton, an Austrian national, is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank’s Crisis and Disaster Risk Finance team with over 15 years of development experience across Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, the Pacific, and South Asia. His work focuses on integrating disaster related fiscal risk into public finance frameworks; and on designing and implementing financial solutions that increase access to liquidity after disasters.
Prior to his present role, Luis worked on Governance and Macroeconomic issues for five years, also at the World Bank. He started his career as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow at the Ministry of Finance of Zanzibar.