Kristina Wienhoefer is a Disaster Risk Management Analyst working with the City Resilience Program (CRP) within the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice in Washington DC. Her work at the Bank has been focused on investment lending and technical assistance related to DRM, post-disaster recovery, urban resilience and resilient infrastructure financing, primarily in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Prior to this, Kristina was a Research Associate looking at the nexus of environment and human rights at the International Justice Initiative, part of Johns Hopkins University, and worked at the development economics department of the World Bank. She completed her Bachelor of Science in International Management with a focus on Latin America in Germany, and holds a MA in International Economics and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).