Paula Restrepo Cadavid

Paula Restrepo Cadavid

Senior Economist

Paula Restrepo is a Senior Economist and Task Team Leader in the Urban, Rural and Social Global Practice within the World Bank. Within GSURR she has worked on areas related to territorial development, urban infrastructure, municipal finance and housing. She has led or contributed to investment projects in: Albania, Kyrgyz Republic, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Honduras an Peru.
 
She holds a Master Degree in Environmental and Development Economics from the Ecole Polytechnique and a doctorate in economics from the Ecole de Mines de Paris, where she worked on assessing the welfare impacts of slum upgrading policies. Her areas of work span from urban and regional economics, to infrastructure financing and environmental economics.