Joshua Gallo, Senior Municipal Finance Specialist at the World Bank since 2000, leads the World Bank’s global City Creditworthiness Initiative and various country-specific technical assistance programs (in particular Tanzania, Uganda, Colombia, Malawi). He’s also Program Manager for the Multi-Donor City Creditworthiness Partnership. Previously he was Program Leader for the Sub-National Technical Assistance (SNTA) Program under the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), as well as Program Manager for the Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector and Infrastructure (NTF-PSI). He was posted in long-term assignments in Peru and Tanzania. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Economics and Law from the Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).