Hiroaki Suzuki is the former lead urban specialist of the World Bank. He has more than 40 years of operational, research and academic experiences in infrastructure, urban and public sectors at the World Bank, the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, Japan (OEF/current Japan International Cooperation Agency/ JICA) and several universities in Tokyo. He specializes in sustainable urban development, transport and land use integration, land value captures, municipal finance, infrastructure finance and public enterprise restructuring and privatization. During his 27-year tenure at the World Bank, he led many innovative lending operations including,” India Coal Sector Rehabilitation”, “Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund” and “Shino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City”. His major publications from the World Bank include: Eco² Cities: Ecological Cities as Economic Cities (2010); Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development (2013); and Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values: Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries, (2015).  He lives with his family in Virginia, USA.