Karla Dominguez Gonzalez
Karla Dominguez Gonzalez is a Gender Specialist in the Transport Global Practice of the World Bank. During her time at the World Bank, she has focused on the analysis of the barriers and enabler’s for women’s mobility and accessibility, strategies to address sexual harassment in public transport within urban settings, and gender analysis for rural road projects in Latin America and Africa. Before joining the WB, she worked for international NGOs as Oxfam and for different agencies of the Mexican government, including the Ministry of Social Development, where she coordinated the design and implementation of its gender mainstreaming strategy. Karla holds a MSc Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Certificate on Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
Nato Kurshitashvili
Nato Kurshitashvili is a Gender Specialist with the Transport Global Practice at the World Bank. Previously she worked as a Principal Gender Adviser at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Prior to that, she had been part of the Statistical Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe working in a multi-country project to support national statistical offices to improve collection and dissemination of sex-disaggregated data. Nato holds a MSc in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and MA in Public Policy from the Central European University.
Muneeza Mehmood Alam
Muneeza Mehmood Alam is an Economist in the Transport Global Practice of the World Bank. During her time at the Bank she has worked on a myriad of topics relating to infrastructure and economic policy. These include economic corridors and regional connectivity, urban transport, logistics, gender, and electric mobility. Muneeza has a keen interest in understanding the mechanisms through which the economic and social benefits of transport investments can be maximized and more equitably distributed. Muneeza holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University and prior to joining the World Bank she has worked in economic consulting.
Moderator: Maria Beatriz Orlando
Maria Beatriz is a Development Economist and specialist in social inclusion, labor markets and gender analysis. While at the World Bank she has contributed to gender equality and inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia through applied analytical work, coordination of efforts to include a gender and social inclusion lens in operations and policy dialogue.
She has conducted research on labor markets and poverty, the socio-economic impact of gender- based violence, access to services and opportunities for different social and ethnic groups, female labor force participation, women’s entrepreneurship, gender- based violence, gender and energy, and the development relevance of gender norms. Prior to joining the World Bank she worked as a Research Associate at the Center for Global Development and Professor at Universidad Católica Andres Bello (Caracas, Venezuela).
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