Farouk Banna is an Environmental Engineer who joined the Urban Development and Resilience unit of the World Bank in April 2012, working primarily on solid waste management and urban resilience projects. Prior to this, he worked between 2006 and 2012 as Environmental Engineer and Consultant for Camp Dresser & McKee and as Solid Waste Engineer for Orange County, North Carolina, USA. He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, and Master’s degrees in civil engineering from the University of Lome, Togo.