Speakers

• A V Venugopal Program Manager- Healthy Streets & Partnerships, ITDP, Chennai
  

  A V Venugopal

  Program Manager- Healthy Streets & Partnerships, ITDP, Chennai

  Venugopal has been supporting the National Smart Cities Mission, MoHUA for the India Cycles4Change and Streets4People Challenges since June 2020. He has been leading the coordination team from ITDP India for both the Challenges and leads the technical content creation for the Streets4People Challenge. Through these initiatives, ITDP India has been guiding over 100 cities across India to create safer healthier and happier streets and public spaces. He is also closely involved in providing technical assistance to the cities of Chennai & Coimbatore for the Complete Streets & Parking Management Initiatives through his role at ITDP.

• Anumita Roychowdhury Executive Director, Research & Advocacy, CSE, Delhi
  

  Anumita Roychowdhury

  Executive Director, Research & Advocacy, CSE, Delhi

  Anumita Roychowdhury is the Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Centre for Science and Environment, India. She is in charge of research and advocacy on Sustainable Urbanisation that encompasses clean air, sustainable mobility and sustainable habitat. Over the last two decades she has worked extensively to shape policy advocacy on these issues and has catalyzed the Right to Clean Air campaign at the Centre. She has helped to guide and build some of the key policy campaigns on air pollution especially vehicular pollution and multi-sector clean air action planning in cities. She is working with other Indian and African cities to help shape the roadmap for clean air action plans. She has participated and played an active role in several national policy forums as well global environmental platforms. She has been participating either as a member or an advisor in various committees and forums. She has widely written and published articles, policy research papers and books. She has been awarded the prestigious Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award by the California Air Resources Board, California, USA.

• Dr. D. Raghunandan Climate Lead, ClimACT-Chennai
  

  Dr. D. Raghunandan

  Climate Lead, ClimACT-Chennai

  Raghunandan is an active founder-member of and volunteers with Delhi Science Forum (DSF), a reputed non-profit “think tank”. In DSF, his focus is on Environment and Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Aerospace, Defence and Strategic Studies, and the Public Understanding of Science.

• G. Karthik Project Associate, ClimACT-Chennai
  

  G. Karthik

  Project Associate, ClimACT-Chennai

  Karthik is a Project Associate with ClimACT-Chennai. An aspiring policy professional with a penchant for data and specializes in research, data analysis and communication, he has six years of experience as a development professional working on a range of policy issues with NGOs and government bodies across the country. He has a bachelor’s degree in Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. In his free time, he is an avid motorcycle enthusiast, photographer, and an amateur writer.

• Prof. Geetam Tiwari TRIPP Chair Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi
  

  Prof. Geetam Tiwari

  TRIPP Chair Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi

  Geetam Tiwari is the Head at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre and MoUD Chair Professor for Transport Planning at the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi. She has been Adlerbretska Guest Professor for sustainable urban transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2007-2010. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning and traffic safety focusing on pedestrians, bicycles and bus systems. She Heads the WHO collaborating Centre on Safety Technologies at TRIP Centre, IIT Delhi. She is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion since 2009.