Federica is Senior Urban and Disaster Risk Management Specialist at the World Bank. She joined the World Bank in 2004 with the Carbon Finance Business Unit where she developed the Italian Carbon Fund and from 2007 with EAP on Climate Change – Mitigation and Adaptation policies and Disaster Risk Management. She has been working on several projects on climate change in EAP, such as Climate Resilient Cities developing innovative tools on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change and strengthening disaster risk management in East Asian Cities, she was also lead author of the World Bank Primer on Climate Resilient Cities and she made several presentations in international symposia and conferences. She was co-TTL of the CRC program application in Vietnam, supervising the development of Local Resilience Action Plans in three cities: Can Tho, Dong Hoi and Hanoi, also coordinating the Hanoi application. She also led the CRC program implementation in Indonesia, Yogyakarta. She was co-TTL of the CRC program application in Ningbo, China. She has been part of the SFCCD team who developed the Framework for the Climate Change strategy of the World Bank Group; she is one of authors of the EAP Region Climate Change strategy and of the Viet Nam climate change strategy, as well as the report: China Clean Development Mechanisms Study. She was also TTL of the case studies in Dar es Salaam and Sao Paolo under the Mayor Task Force – Climate Change, Disaster Risk and the Urban Poor ESW. In EAP, she is currently TTL for the ICR development in the PIIP operation project in Da Nang, Vietnam. She is actually coordinating the DRM and Climate Change Adaptation Program at urban level at WBI, where she is TTL for the learning and training program on DRM and is managing the Learning from Megadisasters project. She is also part of the WDR 2014 – Managing Risk for Development team. Her last assignment before joining the World Bank was as assistant professor at the University of Milan, where she taught undergraduate Environmental Policies, Environmental economics and post graduate Environmental and Social Communication. Currently in leave of absence from the University of Milan, she offers her contribution to workshops and supervision of PhD thesis from time to time. As a Senior Consultant for IADB – InterAmerican Development Bank, she co-managed the project ‘Strategies to foster adoption of CSR Practices in Latin American Countries’ and co-authored and edited a report by the same title, published by IADB in 2007.