Dr. O.P. Agarwal

Senior Advisor, WRI India

Bio

Prior to joining WRI India, Om Prakash (O.P.) Agarwal was the Executive Director at the Indian School of Business and chaired the U.S. Transport Research Board's Committee on Transportation in Developing Countries. He is a highly respected thinker and practitioner with a wealth of experience in cities, urban transport, climate change and related development and environment issues.

He has served as a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and held several positions from 1979 to 2007. During his tenure as the head of the Urban Transport division of the Government of India, he authored India's National Urban Transport Policy, a document that outlines the priorities for sustainable urban transport at all levels of government.

O.P. holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, a Master’s degree in Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Chennai. At WRI India, Agarwal will be leading the office's ongoing efforts to strengthen its work around cities, energy, climate, landscape restoration, water, and government and business engagement.

Blogs

Innovative financing will be key to restoring public transport
by Dr. O.P. Agarwal e - July 23, 2020
This blog was originally published in Mint on 14 July.

A little over 100 days since the covid-19 pandemic brought India to a standstill, damaging lives, livelihoods and the economy, a glimmer of hope has finally appeared.
For clean air, reform how we travel | Analysis
by Dr. O.P. Agarwal - November 07, 2019
This blog post originally appeared in Hindustan Times.

Over the past few years, around the time when Diwali ends and winter sets in, Delhi’s plummeting air quality reaches dangerous levels, initiating a series of debates and actions among
Financing Mass Transit Projects Through All Beneficiaries, And Not Just Users
by Dr. O.P. Agarwal - December 08, 2017
For some time now, there has been an ongoing tussle between the Government of Delhi and the National Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs about increasing fares for the Delhi metro. Under the existing law, a fare fixation committee reviews the fares for the Delhi metro and periodically suggest revisions. This committee is an apolitical body, includes representatives from the Ministry of

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Innovative financing will be key to restoring public transport

For clean air, reform how we travel | Analysis

Financing Mass Transit Projects Through All Beneficiaries, And Not Just Users

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