Stephen Muzira is a Senior Transport Specialist currently working with the World Bank, and based in the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia country office. He has over two decades of wide-ranging experience in the transport sector in Africa, Europe, and Latin America – fourteen years of which have been spent on preparation and supervision of transport projects, and preparing policy and strategy documents for the World Bank. Prior to that, he worked seven years as a transport engineer, planner, and transport network modelling expert with consulting engineering firms in Uganda and the United Kingdom.
Stephen has a Master’s degree in Transport Planning and Engineering (with Distinction) from the University of Leeds, UK. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer, with the Engineering Council, UK, and a Member of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT). He has authored and co-authored a number of seminal papers and articles in the transportation field, and recently led a team in the preparation of an innovative approach to the pave or not to pave development conundrum that led to the SPADE-PLUS model approach.