Wenyu Jia is Sr. Urban Transport Specialist with the Transport Global Practice of the World Bank. She leads urban transport operations in Ethiopia, as well as a number of analytics and policy work in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa. Prior to joining the World Bank, she was Manager for Systems and Capital Planning at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Wenyu received master’s degrees in Transportation Engineering and City Planning from the University of California at Berkeley