Manuel Contreras-Urbina is the Global Lead on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) at the World Bank, where he provides strategic leadership to advance the GBV agenda across the World Bank Group. Prior to this role, he served as Senior GBV Specialist for the Latin America and Caribbean region.
Manuel brings over 25 years of experience in gender-focused research and programming. Before joining the World Bank, he held key positions including Director of Research at the Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University; Programme Officer at UN Women in Mexico and Central America; and Coordinator of the Gender, Violence, and Rights portfolio at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), among others.
He holds a Ph.D. in Population and Gender from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a Master’s degree in Demography from El Colegio de México, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Actuarial Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).