Marisela Ponce de Leon Valdes
Transport Specialist
Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety

Marisela is a transport specialist with the Global Road Safety Facility at the World Bank and is the focal point for Asia for the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS). Most recently, she served as the Road Safety Focal Point for the Transport Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). She has a Master's Degree in Public Health from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) and a Bachelor Degree in International Relations from the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Monterrey (Mexico). Previously she served as Road Safety Injury and Violence Prevention Consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) in its Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) in the Philippines and for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in its México Country Office. Prior to this, she served at the International Relations Department of the Technical Secretariat of the National Council for Accident Prevention (STCONAPRA) of Mexico.