Fernanda acts as Project Coordinator for the Benchmarking Infrastructure Development project. Since she joined the World Bank as a Young Professional in 2007, Fernanda has worked in the Infrastructure sector in East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean Regions. Fernanda has been working at the Bank in both research and operations, focusing mainly on transport, energy, and urban sectors, and providing overall strategic directions and technical inputs on operations and analytical work related to infrastructure policy, economics, and financing. Before joining the Bank, Fernanda worked as a Research Associate in the Institute of Economic Research at the Fundacion Banco Empresario in Argentina, and as a Research Analyst at the Inter-American Development Bank. She was also a lecturer in the Economics Department at the University of Chicago (2003-2005) and at the Universidad Nacional de Tucuman (2000-2002). A national of Argentina, Fernanda holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Mikel Tejada Ibañez joined the Benchmarking Infrastructure Development team in December 2014, where he acts as Topic Leader for the project. Before joining the World Bank Group, he worked on PPP at the Fiscal and Municipal Management Division of the Inter-American Development Bank. Prior to that, he practiced public and administrative law as an associate with the law firm Garrigues in Barcelona, Spain. Mikel holds a joint degree in Law and Business Administration from the Public University of Navarra and holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University Trachtenberg School. He has been a member of the Barcelona Bar Association since 2007. Mikel speaks Spanish and some French.

Nasser Alreshaid joined the Benchmarking Infrastructure Development team in November 2015. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he was a prosecutor in Kuwait facilitating international cooperation and investigating crimes concerning public funds, corruption, money laundering, securities fraud, and non-implementation of judicial decisions. He also worked as an associate at Abdullah Khaled Alayoub law firm in Kuwait and was a member of the interagency council for human rights. He has recent scholarly publications on investor-state dispute settlements and trade in the MENA region. Nasser is a doctoral candidate in law and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from NYU, an LL.M. in Public Law from Kuwait University, a law degree from the University of Sharjah, U.A.E., and a judicial and legal studies diploma from the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies. Nasser is a native Arabic speaker.

Khasan Khamudkhanov joined the Benchmarking Infrastructure Development team in October 2015. Before joining the Benchmarking Public Procurement team, Khasan was an intern for the World Bank Group’s Doing Business project, where he worked on the Enforcing Contracts and the Protecting Minority Investors indicators. Khasan worked at Citibank Philippines prior to joining the World Bank Group, where he focused on improving and streamlining the credit and loan approval process within the Credit Payment Products Department. Khasan holds a Master in Public Policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, and a Bachelor in Commerce specializing in Finance and Business Technology Management (BTM) from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. Khasan is fluent in Russian and Uzbek.

Darya Yurlova joined the Benchmarking Infrastructure Development team in August 2019. Before then, she was working on a number of assignments across the World Bank Group, including with the IFC C3P Advisory, World Bank Infrastructure Analytics and the Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) colleagues. The scope of activities ranged from a project-specific work to the higher-level institutional framework assessments, such as support for the several energy and water PPP transactions at IFC, analysis of the airports’ concession contracts for projects in Brazil, Bulgaria and Jamaica vis-à-vis international best practices for the contract provisions performed for GIF as well as Institutional Investors in Infrastructure initiative aimed at assessing regulatory frameworks in 19 economies for the role they play in determination of insurance companies and pension funds to invest in infrastructure done for the World Bank, among others. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Darya was a Leading Officer at the Corporate Credit Analysis Division in Raiffeisenbank, Moscow, Russia, and a Risk Management Specialist at the Credit Europe Bank, Moscow, Russia, both preceded by an internship with the FX Multinational Sales Department of the Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Darya holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Finance Management as well as a Master’s Degree in Banking from the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, and a Master’s Degree in Accountancy from the George Washington University, Washington, DC. Darya is a native Russian speaker.

Isabela Albergaria joined the Benchmarking Infrastructure Development team in September 2019. Previously, Isabela had been working for the Development Economics Group of the World Bank since January 2017, where she worked as a legal analyst for lusophone and hispanophone countries for projects such as Subnational Doing Business, Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance, among others. As a Brazilian attorney with a mixed background in business and human rights, Isabela had the opportunity to work with public and private sectors in Brazil, as well as with international organizations such as the Organization of American States and the International Chamber of Commerce. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in International Legal Studies from American University Washington College of Law and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Faculdade de Direito de Vitoria, Brazil. Isabela speaks Portuguese and Spanish.

Adam Jankowski officially joined the Benchmarking Infrastructure Development team in November 2017, after interning with the project in Spring, 2017. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he interned at the compliance department of ING Financial Services in Warsaw. He has also done volunteer work, providing legal and linguistic assistance to LGBT and elderly persons in Poland. Adam has passed the New York Bar examination and is awaiting admission to the State Bar. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. in Polish law from the University of Warsaw, and a B.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warsaw. Adam speaks Polish and French and is learning Spanish. He has recently moved on to work at Armesto & Asociados Arbitros in Madrid, Spain.

Nina Aoudjhane joined the Benchmarking Infrastructure Development team in September 2019. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, she worked as an in-house legal expert on the PPP Contract “BALARD” for the General Secretary for Administration at the Ministry of Armed Forces in France while teaching post-graduate students in Public Procurement and Public Contract Law at the University Paris Ouest la Défense. Nina holds a public business law degree from the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Public Economic Law at the University Paris Ouest la Défense. Nina is a doctoral candidate in public law, she recently contributed to « Oversight and challenges of public contracts » edited by Laurence Folliot- Lalliot and, Simone Torricelli ; Bruxelles : Bruylant, 2018. Nina is a native French speaker.