Yuko Arai is an Urban Specialist at the World Bank’s Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice. She brings over 15 years of experience working on urban development, leading multiple projects including the National Urban Development Project (NUDP), Global Environment Facility Sustainable Cities Impact Project (GEF-SCIP) and the City Planning Labs (CPL) Project in Indonesia. She co-leads the Inclusive Cities Knowledge Silo Breaker Group in the World Bank and has recently co-authored the global report “Silver Hues: Building Age-Ready Cities.” Prior to joining the World Bank, she was a private-sector urban planner based in the East Asia Region, working in Vietnam, Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines, and Thailand. She has experience working on spatial and land use planning, slum upgrading, urban development Master Plans, inclusive urban designs, land readjustment pilots, transit-oriented development, inter-city high-speed railway development, etc. She has also worked for capacity building projects for local officials on urban/ regional plan formulation and development control through writing manuals for use in training courses and lecturing in some of them. She holds master’s degrees in Urban Planning from the University of Cambridge, UK and Civil Engineering (hydrology) from the University of Tokyo, Japan.