Arturo Ardila-Gomez is the Global Lead for Urban Mobility at the World Bank’s Transport Global Unit, where he leads the Urban Mobility Global Solutions Group at the Bank. He oversees a portfolio of projects in the Middle East and Northern Africa Region of the World Bank, primarily in Egypt. He also provides overall technical support to projects for all regions in the Bank on issues such as financing, fare collection, the political economy of reform, and the role of disruptive technologies. He is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and two books, examples are Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway, Smart Cities, ITS, Mobility, and Energy Efficiency. His research currently focuses on sustainable urban transport asset management, transport decarbonization, land use and transport, and on improving the quality of monitoring and evaluation, including indicators, for transport projects. He holds a doctorate in urban transportation planning and a master's degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a civil engineer and holds a master's degree in economics, both from Los Andes University in Bogota.