Raja Rehan Arshad is Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist in the Global Facility for Disaster Risk and Reduction (GFDRR), the World Bank’s institutional mechanism for disaster risk management. He leads GFDRR’s resilient recovery work, spearheading the Recovery Framework and Strengthening Recovery Systems efforts. He has led post-disaster reconstruction efforts in Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake and in Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis in 2008.