Mattias K. Lundberg, Ph.D., is a Senior Economist at Aceso Global and has over 25 years of experience as an economist with the World Bank. His work has spanned a wide range of issues in human development, including improving and protecting human capital among children and youth in times of crisis, promoting skills and jobs, food security and nutrition, reintegrating former combatants following war, and HIV/AIDS and TB prevention in Eastern Europe. His published work includes research on incentives in the delivery of primary health services, the behavioral determinants of health, and the cost effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions. As part of that work he helped to establish the Economics Reference Group for UNAIDS. 

Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Lundberg worked for the Asian Development Bank to conduct a poverty impact assessment of proposed Health Sector and Agriculture reforms for the Government of Mongolia, and to establish a poverty monitoring unit for the office of the Prime Minister, and he worked at Cornell University, Michigan State University, the International Food Policy Research Institute and other agencies, primarily on issues related to food security and nutrition.