Carlos I. Mejía, a Dominican national, is an Urban Economist with the World Bank’s Global Practice for Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land (GPURL). Carlos has worked in multiple regions and countries, including fragile and conflict-affected environments such as Haiti, Mali, South Sudan, and Somalia. He currently works for the Eastern & Southern Africa Region, focusing on operational and analytical work in urban economics and spatial and territorial development. Carlos worked previously in the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC) and the Education Unit in Latin America and the Caribbean Region.
Before joining the World Bank, he worked as an Economic Consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and as an analyst for microfinance institutions in the Dominican Republic and France. He holds a postgraduate diploma in applied data science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s in business and management from École Supérieur de Commerce de Montpellier, where he was a Fondation de France Scholar, a postgraduate diploma in finance degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the same university. Carlos speaks Spanish and French.