Yoonhee Kim is the Practice Manager for Urban, Resilience and Land Global Practice (East Asia & Pacific Region) at the World Bank. She brings a wealth of expertise as the former Lead Urban Specialist and Program Leader for Sustainable Development (SD) in China, Mongolia and Korea at the World Bank, where she coordinates the SD programs consisting of environment, natural resources and blue economy, water, social sustainability and inclusion, urban, resilience and land, and agriculture and food. Prior to assuming the role of SD Program Leader in July 2020, she worked more than 13 years at the Bank as an Urban Specialist in a number of countries in South Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean Regions, where she led multi-sectoral and complex lending operations and policy dialogue on urban housing, local government support, and green and sustainable municipal infrastructure. She also led and participated in a number of publications on urbanization review, housing policy and municipal service delivery. Yoonhee has a B.A. in political science from Yonsei University, Korea, and graduate degrees in international economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS and in urban economics and policy from the University of Maryland.