Tim Campbell worked for more than 40 years in urban development with experience in scores of countries and hundreds of cities in Latin America, South and East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. He retired from the World Bank in 2005 after 17 years in the urban sector. He is currently a Woodrow Wilson Global Fellow. His areas of expertise include city learning, innovation, smart cities, strategic urban planning, city development strategies, decentralization, urban policy, and social and poverty impact of urban development. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from U. C. Berkeley (1966), a Masters in City and Regional Planning from U.C. Berkeley (1970), and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from M.I.T. (1980). Campbell is currently Chairman of the Urban Age Institute.