Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts
Lead Urban Economist
Global Lead for Urban & Spatial Economics and Analytics
Urban, Subnational Finance, Tourism & Disaster Management Global Department
The World Bank
Paris, France
E-mail: mroberts1@worldbank.org
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MARK ROBERTS is a Lead Urban Economist with the World Bank, where he also serves as the Bank's Global Lead for Urban and Spatial Economics & Analytics. He is the lead author of major World Bank Flagship reports on cities and urbanization for Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia and Indonesia, as well as of a global Flagship report on cities and climate change. He has also worked on the Europe and Central Asia and Middle East and North Africa regions, and is an analytical advisor to Work Bank teams around the globe working on issues of urban and spatial development. Mark has published more than thirty articles in leading academic journals and edited book volumes, and downloads of his World Bank publications exceed 632,000. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mark was a University Lecturer in Urban and Spatial Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Mark holds both a Ph.D. in Land Economy and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Cambridge, as well as an M.Sc. in Economics from Warwick University.
E-mail: mroberts1@worldbank.org
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