Veronica Raffo

Bio

Veronica Raffo is Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the Transport Global Practice at the World Bank, which she joined in 2006 as a Young Professional. She has contributed to advancing the agenda of sustainable transport and mobility through her management of lending and advisory operations in urban mobility, rural connectivity, road asset management, multimodal logistics and transport planning in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.

She holds degrees from the University of Buenos Aires (Juris Doctor) and the London School of Economics (Chevening Scholar). Before joining the Bank she worked as a researcher at the Social Science Research Council, as Program Coordinator for the Program on Global Security and Cooperation (New York–Washington DC), and at the European Parliament in Brussels.

She has served as advisor to the FIA High Level Panel for Road Safety and represented the World Bank on the Interim Secretariat that launched the UN Road Safety Fund, on the MDBs Working Group on Road Safety and in the UN Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC). She has also led the World Bank’s global engagement for the development of regional road safety observatories in Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.