Steven Rubinyi is a Disaster Risk Management Specialist at the World Bank, where he works to bring emerging digital technologies to cities to support their resilience planning efforts under the City Resilience Program. Steven also leads the City Creditworthiness Initiative and works at a thematic level on communities of practice aimed at leveraging geospatial solutions across the World Bank investment portfolio and bringing innovative financing solutions to cities. He has worked at the World Bank for seven years, including four years based in South Asia where he worked on investment project operations focused on urban and coastal resilience, and housing reconstruction from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake. He holds a PhD from the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.