Jessica Carolina Grisanti Bravo

Jessica Grisanti is an Urban Development Specialist. She is leading the Global Smart City Partnership Program (GSCP) and supports the City Climate Gap Fund and in the Practice for Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land (GPURL). At the World Bank, her work has focused on urban infrastructure projects, analytical work on territorial development, competitive cities, access to basic services, performance of local governments and disaster risk management. She is an economist from the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Venezuela and holds a master’s degree in economic policy from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.