Arturo Ardila-Gomez, a Colombian National, is the lead transport economist in the Middle East and Northern Africa Region of the World Bank.
He was until recently the Global Lead for Urban Mobility at the World Bank's Transport Global Unit, where he led the Urban Mobility Global Solutions Group at the Bank. He oversees a portfolio of transport projects, primarily in Egypt. He also provides overall technical support to projects for all regions in the Bank on issues such as financing, fare collection, the political economy of reform, the role of disruptive technologies, and Transit Oriented Development (TOD).
He is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and three books. Examples are “Planning for Transit-Oriented Development in Emerging Cities,” “Public Transport Reform in Developing Countries: Lessons From Experience,” “Sustainable Urban Transport Financing from the Sidewalk to the Subway,” “Decarbonizing cities by improving public transport and managing land use and traffic,” and Smart Cities, ITS, Mobility, and Energy Efficiency. His research focuses on land use and transport, transport decarbonization, financing, sustainable urban transport asset management, and improving monitoring and evaluation quality, including indicators, for transport projects.
He holds a doctorate in urban transportation planning and a master's in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a civil engineer with a master's in economics from Los Andes University in Bogota (Colombia).