Abhas Jha
World Bank, Regional Coordinator, East Asia/Pacific Disaster Management Team
Abhas K. Jha is an urban infrastructure specialist and has been with the Bank since 2001 in the Board (as Advisor to the Indian ED), and with the LAC and ECA regions. Mr. Jha has previously held positions in the Government of India (the Ministry of Finance and earlier in the state of Bihar). He has been Regional DRM Coordinator in ECA and also led the Bank's Urban, Housing and DRM work in Mexico, Jamaica and Peru. Mr. Jha holds graduate degrees in Finance from Johns Hopkins University and in Economics from the University of Madras.
