Dr. Shomik Mehndiratta is the World Bank’s Practice Manager for Transport in Europe and Central Asia. He has been at the World Bank since 2002 (except for a short break in 2015) working across East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe and Central Asia, in projects that straddle the entire transport space, from freight logistics to urban mobility, rural and inter-city connectivity, decarbonization, and road safety. He has served in the past as the World Bank's global lead on urban mobility and climate-informed transport. In the period 2007-2010 he lived and worked in China and is the co-editor and author of an edited book on Low Carbon Urban Development in China. In 2015 he briefly worked with Uber as Director of Policy;and prior to the World Bank he worked at CRA International, a business and economics consulting firm, based in Boston, USA. He holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and an executive MBA jointly from INSEAD and Tsinghua University.