Akanksha Aggarwal

Senior Program Associate - Transport

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Akanksha Aggarwal is a Senior Program Associate for the Sustainable Cities & Transport Program at WRI India. She works out of the Mumbai office on several road safety projects under the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety. Her efforts are focused on improving the quality of urban life in cities by making them safe and livable through better urban design.

Akanksha has a total experience of over five years in the field of architecture and urban design. At WRI India, she works closely with authorities on street and intersection redevelopment projects, capacity building initiatives, study of institutional frameworks, and street design initiatives such as Mumbai Street Lab. Prior to joining WRI, Akanksha worked on the Mangalore Smart City Project as part of a voluntary summer internship in Mangalore during her master’s.

Akanksha holds a bachelor’s in architecture from Dehradun Institute of Technology, Dehradun and a master’s in architecture from CEPT University, Ahmedabad with a major in Urban Design and a minor in Sustainable Architecture. Her postgraduate thesis focused on exploring and designing macro- and micro-level interventions in the public realm that could aid in making the urban environment child friendly by addressing the need for play and independent and safe mobility for children.

In her spare time, she likes to read and sketch.

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