Anjali Mahendra
Chapel Hill & New Delhi
Dr. Anjali Mahendra is Strategy Head for Research and Practice at EMBARQ, the Cities and Transport program of the World Resources Institute in India. Anjali has 10+ years of experience in urban planning, transportation policy, and regional economic development and has worked in the U.S, Europe, India and Latin America. At EMBARQ, she is leading research on climate mitigation through transport measures, transport financing strategies, health impact assessments for transport projects, impacts of urban form on travel behavior, transport governance issues, etc. She is currently Lead Expert for the Communitas Coalition’s work group on universal access to basic infrastructure services, pushing for an urban sustainable development goal (SDG) in the post-2015 development agenda. Anjali has a master’s degree in City Planning, an M.S. in Transportation, and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, all from MIT, USA, and is trained as an architect from the School of Planning and Architecture, India.
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