Partners & Advisors

This groundbreaking convening is presented by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations; hosted by the Chulalongkorn University Transportation Institute (CUTI); and, co-organized by the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at the Columbia Climate School, the Global Network for Popular Transportation (GNPT), the Partnership for Research in Informal and Shared Mobility (PRISM), the Shared-Use Mobility Center, and World Resources Institute - Ross Center for Cities (WRI-Ross Center), with support from the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS).

This convening is a key component of the International Research Program (IRP) under VREF's Informal and Shared Mobility initiative (ISM). The IRP is led by PRISM, a growing global consortium that includes transport and urban research centers in Columbia University, Chulalongkorn University, Universidad los Andes, University of Cape Town, Chulalongkorn University, University College London, University of Manchester, and the University of Ghana. PRISM also includes the Society for the Promotion of Area Resources (SPARC) in India, Centro Para la Sostenibilidad Urbana (CPSU) in Costa Rica, WRI China, along with GNPT, SUMC, and WRI-Ross Cities.

Working Group

Advisors

Charles Aholi
Executive Director
National Public Transport Alliance (NAPTA) - Kenya

Abimbola Akinajo
Managing Director
Lagos Area Metropolitan Transport Authority (LAMATA)

Solene Baffi
Project Manager
CODATU

Mariana Batista
Project Officer, Zero Emission Bus Rapid-Deployment Accelerator (ZEBRA)
C40 Cities

Roger Behrens
Director, Centre for Transport Studies
University of Cape Town

MJ (Thinus) Booysen
Director, Electric Mobility Lab
Stellenbosch University

Maruxa Cardama
Independent Consultant

Angel Cárdenas
General Manager of Infrastructure for Development
Banco de desarrollo de América Latina y El Caribe (CAF)

Alana Dave
Urban Transport Director
International Transport Workers Federation

Edgar Gabriels
(Member and Taxi Owner)
7th Avenue Taxi Association

Daphne Gross-Jansen
Deputy Head of Division
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Mohamed Hegazy
Founder
Transport for Cairo

Jamie Leather
Chief Transport Sector Group
Asian Development Bank

Bianca Macedo
Senior Manager, Clean Transport Finance
C40 Cities

Lusanda Madikizela
Director of Implementation, Africa
C40 Cities

Jacob Mason
Senior Director, Global Program
ITDP

John Mark Mwanika
Program Manager
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Trade Union Competence Centre (FES-TUCC)

Hind Ourahou
General Manager for Africa
GST Consulting

Felipe Ramirez
Urban Mobility Director
WRI

Athena Ronquillo-Ballesteros
Independent Consultant

Lynn Scholl
Lead Transport Specialist
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Sasank Vemuri
Lead MobiliseYourCity Secretariat and TUMI Just Mobility
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Sarah Williams
Director
Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism and the Civic Data Design Lab (MIT)

Scientific Committee