周咏梅教授于1999年获得美国加州大学伯克利分校经济博士学位，专攻新制度经济学和发展经济学。毕业后就职世界银行，坚持研究与实践制度建设问题，积累了第一手国际发展经验。1999-2012年间她担任非洲及南亚国家高层政府官员的政策与制度建设顾问。2012-2014年间她领队世界银行脆弱性、冲突与暴力跨领域解决方案小组，推动世行内部改革以提高对脆弱体制国家的援助效力。之后她联合领导编写世界银行的旗舰报告《 2017年世界发展报告 – 治理和法律》。2017-2020年，她常驻雅加达，负责世界银行最大的有关经济、金融与制度建设的国家项目，每年负责业务量为10亿美元的贷款开发项目与1200万美元的技术援助工作；在财政政策、公共财物管理、地方治理、金融包容性、数字经济等领域取得成果。自2020年9月，周咏梅教授加盟南南合作与发展学院，担任实践教授与全球伙伴关系主任。她的研究重点是政策效力及制度建设。

学术出版：

World Development Report on Governance and the Law, World Bank, 2017.

The First Independent Evaluation of the Backward Region Grant Fund, World Bank, 2010.

Decentralization, Democracy, and Development: Recent Experience from Sierra Leone, editor, World Bank, 2009. Also authored chapter 1, “Introduction,” and co-authored chapter 5, “Civic Engagement in Local Governance.”

“Co-optation Despite Democratization in Ghana,” coauthored with Staffan L. Lindberg, in Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies, ed. Joel Barkan, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.

Building Effective States, Forging Engaged Societies, coauthored with other core members of the Task Force on Africa Capacity Building, World Bank, 2005.

“Emerging Legislatures: Institutions of Horizontal Accountability,” coauthored with Joel Barkan and Ladipo Adamolekun, published in Building State Capacity in Africa: New Approaches, Emerging Lessons, eds. Brian Levy and Sahr Kpundeh, World Bank, 2004.

Corruption and Public Spirit, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1999.

“Comparing State Owned Enterprise Reforms in China and Taiwan,” in Raising International Competitiveness: The Experience of Taiwan, ed. Shunfeng Song and Xinghai Fang, China Economics Press, 1998.

“Public Enterprises and Public Finance in Western Countries,” in Practices of Public Finance in Western Countries, ed. Jun Ma and Kangbin Zheng, China Finance and Economics Press, 1997.