Stephane Straub is the chief economist for infrastructure at the World Bank. The World Bank Chief Economist for Infrastructure Office (INFCE) produces comprehensive knowledge pertaining to policy and institutional reforms in the areas of Energy and Extractives, Transport, Urban, and Infrastructure Finance. 

Between 2008 and 2023, he was a professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, Université de Toulouse Capitole, where he remains an associate member. He has held academic positions in the US, the UK and France, and was president of the European Development Network (EUDN) between 2018 and 2023. His research focuses on issues of infrastructure, procurement, and more generally institutional development in the context of developing countries.