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# Sameh Naguib Wahba

World Bank

Global Director for Urban and Territorial Development, Disaster Risk Management and Resilience

Egypt

Sameh Naguib Wahba is the Global Director for Urban and Territorial Development, Disaster Risk Management and Resilience at the World Bank, where he oversees the formulation of the World Bank’s strategy and the design and delivery of all lending, technical assistance, policy advisory activities, and partnerships at the global level.
Prior to this, he was Practice Manager for the Urban and Disaster Risk Management unit in Africa and the Global Urban and Resilience Unit, and he served as Acting Director of Operations and Strategy for the Global Practice. He also worked as Sustainable Development Sector Leader for Brazil, based in Brasilia, and worked as an urban specialist focused on housing, land, local economic development, and municipal management and service delivery in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and North Africa Regions. Prior to joining the Bank in 2004, he worked at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies in Rotterdam and at the Harvard Center for Urban Development Studies.

- Security of tenure, land market and segregation Special Sessions Friday 9 February 2025 09:00 - 11:00 Banquet Hall
- Urbanization and Development: investing in the transformative force of cities High Level Roundtables Saturday 10 February 2025 09:00 - 12:00 Plenary Hall
- An integrated territorial approach to sustainable development High Level Roundtables Saturday 10 February 2025 14:30 - 17:30 Plenary Hall

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