Urban Economist
Social, Rural, Urban & Resilience Global Practice, World Bank
Wanli Fang is an Urban Economist with the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice of the World Bank. She currently manages several urban development and infrastructure investment projects in China. Her expertise covers a variety of areas related to sustainable urbanization and infrastructure financing, including transit-oriented development, social-economic impacts evaluation, spatial analysis, economic zone development, land and real estate market, municipal finance and public-private partnership (PPP), etc. Prior to the World Bank, she was an Economist at the World Resources Institute based in Washington DC, where she conducted economic analyses and policy research to support sustainable cities in major emerging economies. She used to teach economics classes for urban planners at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and served as a part-time policy researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She holds a PhD in urban and regional economics from MIT, U.S.A., and an MS and a BE degree in City Planning from Peking University, P.R. China.