Nancy Lozano Gracia is currently a Program Manager in the World Bank Group Institute for Economic Development (IED). In her current role, she provides technical leadership throughout the Institute’s activities, contributes to shaping knowledge programs and products, and helps build strong partnerships for localized and effective solutions to development problems. Her current areas of interest include improving measurement of the costs of air pollution, the impacts if improved information on adaptation to air pollution, and how to improve our understanding of the key bottlenecks to job creation and the spatial distribution of economic activity in data scarce environments. She has over 20 years of experience in economic policy and research, working across sectors with a focus on sustainable development and devising innovative tools and data to improve the understanding of sustainable development challenges and help identify priorities for action. She is also the Co-Lead of the Global Solutions Group on Urban and Spatial Economics and Analytics of the Urban, Resilience, and Land Global Practice. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics from University of Illinois and master’s degrees in Environmental and Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland and Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.