Juan Carlos Atoche is a disaster risk management and education infrastructure consultant at the World Bank Group´s Global Program for Safer School and Education Global Practice. He currently works in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Since 2015, he has supported the design and implementation of financing operations and technical assistance initiatives in Peru, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Honduras. His work is aimed at supporting the design and implementation of public policies and investment plans that are effective in reducing learning poverty and the risk of disasters and climate change. Since 2003, he has been a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering in the Universidad de Piura in Peru. He holds a master's degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, a specialization in strategic planning and management from the Universidad Católica in Chile, and is a Civil Engineer from the Universidad de Piura in Peru.