Aashima Bhandari is a Senior Program Associate with the Sustainable Cities and Transport program at WRI India, based in Delhi. She plays a key role in advancing urban mobility and road safety through initiatives such as Vision Zero for Youth (FIA Foundation), Safer Routes to School (3M), Safer Mobility for Youth (Fondation BOTNAR), and the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS). With over eight years of experience, she specializes in urban development, street design, and sustainable mobility.

Her work involves providing technical expertise on urban mobility and road safety projects, with a strong focus on street design, infrastructure improvement, and capacity-building programs. She has led tactical urbanism efforts, implementing temporary street interventions to test and refine long-term safety measures. Aashima also contributes to national policy development in collaboration with the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) and the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), and works closely with government and non-governmental organizations to drive impact.

She has presented the Safer Mobility for Youth project in Rohtak at WALK 21 in Kigali, Rwanda. Previously, she worked as a Project Architect at PSA Studio, Gurugram, and contributed to the World Bank-supported Rajasthan Road Sector Modernization Project. She attended the Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Stockholm. Aashima holds an M.Tech from TERI University, Delhi, and a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.