Maria Pia Ancora

Senior Urban Development Specialist
, ADB
Profile / Bio: 

Maria Pia Ancora is a Senior Urban Development Specialist in the Water and Urban Development Sector Office (SG-WUD). With more than two decades of experience, she has designed and implemented sustainable urban infrastructure investments and provided environmental policy advice across Asia (India, Mongolia, Pakistan, PRC, among other countries). She is currently based in Tbilisi and oversees ADB’s urban and climate programs in the South Caucasus region. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Land Use Planning from the University of Trento (Italy) and a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University (PRC).

Materials

Title Date Learning Materials Topic
Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement Program 06 June 2024 Slides Environment, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Economics
National Spatial Data Infrastructure to support development, investment planning in Armenia 19 September 2023 Slides ICT
Developing Urban Resilience in Central and West Asia 19 November 2021 Slides Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management