Sameh Wahba is the global director for the World Bank’s Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice, in Washington, DC. This Global Practice—which also covers territorial development, geospatial, and results-based financing issues—has a portfolio of close to US$30 billion in commitments in investment projects, Program-for-Results financing, and development policy lending and employs about 450 staff members. He has more than 25 years of experience in urban planning, housing, land and slum upgrading, local economic development, municipal service delivery, and post-disaster resilient recovery. He has held numerous senior management and leadership positions at the World Bank, working extensively in the Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Middle East and North Africa regions. He coauthored the World Bank’s flagship publication, “Regenerating Urban Land: A Practitioner’s Guide to Leveraging Private Investment” (2016), as well as the “Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery” (2018) position paper published jointly with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Before joining the World Bank in 2004, he worked at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies in Rotterdam and at the Harvard Center for Urban Development Studies. He holds doctoral and master’s degrees in urban planning from Harvard University.