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Geoffrey Read

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-06-13 08:58

Geoffrey Read has spent his career working on urban development issues and programs. He has a background in civil and municipal engineering, with a smattering of applied economics. Experience working in Europe, Africa and South and East Asia has given the opportunity to be exposed to a broad range of challenges to be dealt with during policy assessment and formulation, development program design, and physical project management and implementation. His academic background was in civil and municipal engineering, and business administration.

Building on extensive private sector experience, and then some 25 years working in the World Bank Group, much of it in China, he has had the opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of approaches adopted and lessons learned by clients addressing the challenges of urban development, including those specifically exploring the unique role and features of culture and heritage. In China, he has also advised on heritage programs in a number of provinces and several of China's mega-cities.

He currently works as a consultant to the World Bank, and on other development project activities.