Catherine Lynch is a Senior Urban Specialist at the World Bank with over 25 years of experience designing and implementing complex housing, urban development, and real estate finance projects in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, East Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Since joining the World Bank in 2007, Catherine has led multidisciplinary teams on a range of investment operations and analytical engagements supporting client countries in addressing housing and urban challenges. Her expertise spans housing sector diagnostics and lending, policy reform, urban infrastructure and service delivery, municipal finance, and public-private partnerships.
Prior to the World Bank, Catherine worked in the private sector, including at Telesis Corporation, where she directed neighborhood revitalization projects that leveraged blended financing for affordable housing. Earlier in her career, she was an analyst at J.P. Morgan, where she focused on tax-exempt municipal finance and real estate mergers and acquisitions.
Catherine holds a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Harvard University and a dual bachelor’s degree from the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.