Rafael Rofman is a graduate from the University of Buenos Aires in Economics, with a master degree in Social Demography from the University of Lujan in Argentina and a PhD in Demography from UC Berkeley. He has been a consultant for international organizations and national governments in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Mauritius. In Argentina he has been head of research at the Supervision of Pension Funds, at NACION AFJP, advisor to the Minister of Economy and to the Secretary of Social Security and, until recently, vice-president of NACION AFJP. He joined the World Bank as a senior economist for Social Protection in the Latin America and the Caribbean region in September 2003, and has worked on social protection and pensions in Argentina, Bolivia, Dominica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay since then.

He is author of many studies on adult mortality, social security and pension reform, presented in meetings and published. He has been university professor at the University of Buenos Aires, University Di Tella, New York University and the National University of Honduras.