Our Board of Advisors
Mariana Alegre Escorza is the General Coordinator of Lima Cómo Vamos citizen observatory. The observatory’s mission is to evaluate the quality of life of the “limeños” (Lima`s neighborhoods). She also writes opinion columns for newspapers Perú 21 and El Tiempo.
Roger Behrens is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, and Director of the Centre for Transport Studies (CfTS), at the University of Cape Town. He served as Director of the African Centre of Excellence for Studies in Public and Non-motorised Transport.
Rogier van den Berg is Global Director for WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, leading WRI’s program focused on more accessible, equitable, healthy and resilient cities.
Daniel Bongardt is the program director for Transport and Climate Change at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). He heads GIZ's global projects on transport and climate change TraCS and TRANSfer.
Maruxa Cardama is the Secretary General of the SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport.
Martha (Marty) Chen is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Founder, Emeritus International Coordinator and Senior Advisor of the global network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).
Gina Lucarelli is the Team Leader for the United Nations Development Programme Accelerator Lab Network.
Mohamed Mezghani is the Secretary General of the L’Union internationale des Transports Publics (UITP). He also previously served UITP as Senior Manager, and as Knowledge Director.
Aishwarya Raman is the Director and Head of Research at the Ola Mobility Institute (OMI), a new-age policy research and social innovation think tank developing knowledge frameworks at the intersection of mobility innovation and public good.
Dr. Mimi Sheller is the Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. She was the founding Director of the New Mobilities Research and Policy Center at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Heather Thompson is the CEO of the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy and was co-founder and Vice President of Programs for ClimateWorks
Jinhua Zhao is the Director of the Mobility Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also an Associate Professor of City and Transportation Planning.