Artessa Saldivar-Sali is a Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the Urban, Disaster Risk Management, and Land unit in Latin America and the Caribbean. She previously worked in East Asia & the Pacific, leading urban resilience and regeneration, disaster risk management, seismic risk reduction, and climate adaptation projects. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2010, she was an adviser in the Office of the President of the Philippines, and was also an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the Philippines. She holds Master’s degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering, as well as Building Technology, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.