Marisela Ponce de León Valdés is a Senior Transport Specialist and the Road Safety Pillar Lead within the Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) at the World Bank Group. Previously, Marisela was a Transport Specialist and the focal point for East Asia Pacific for the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) with the World Bank's Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF). Before that, Marisela served as the Road Safety Focal Point for the Transport Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Marisela holds a Master's Degree in Public Health from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) and a degree in International Relations from the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Monterrey, ITESM (Mexico). Marisela has also worked as a Road Safety Injury and Violence Prevention Consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) in its Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) in the Philippines and for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in its México Country Office. Prior to these roles, Marisela served at the International Relations Department of the Technical Secretariat of the National Council for Accident Prevention (STCONAPRA) of Mexico.