Manuel Contreras-Urbina works at the World Bank as a Senior Social Development Specialist for the Latin America and Caribbean on gender-based violence (GBV). He has 25 years of experience in gender and GBV research and programs. Before joining the Bank, he served as the Director of Research of the Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University, as the Programme Officer at UN Women in Mexico and Central America and as the coordinator of the Gender, Violence and Rights portfolio at the International Center for Research on Women. Manuel earned a PhD in Population and Gender Studies from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a Masters in Demography from El Colegio de México and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Actuarial Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.