Madhav Pai

Executive Director – WRI India Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Bio

Madhav Pai is India Director for the WRI Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities. The center founded in 2014 combines the strength of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities with the Institute’s expertise in energy & climate, adaptation, water, and governance aspires to deliver the goal of sustainable cities. He continues to be director for the India Center a program he co-started 7 years ago. WRI India Sustainable Cities currently engages over 35+ professionals in 4 offices across India and has supported provided support to 15+ cities on sustainable transport and urban development projects. Notable successes include iBus in Indore, BIG Bus Network in Bangalore, Raahgiri in Delhi & Gurgaon, Transit Oriented Development in Hubli Dharwad and Rickshaw Rising.

Madhav has published extensively since his return to India including papers on auto rickshaws, motorcycle safety, informal public transport, reorganizing city bus systems, bus rapid transit and long term externalities of urban transport systems. He is the lead author of "Bus Karo" a guidebook on bus operations and planning. Madhav has over 15+ years’ experience leading, designing and managing urban transport programs and projects in India, Asia and United states. At University of California Berkeley he was involved in shared mobility research assessing impacts of city car share on travel behaviour in the City of San Francisco.

Madhav is a Civil Engineer from Mumbai and holds a Master’s Degree in Transport Planning from University of California Berkeley.

Blog Posts

From My Window: A View of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mumbai
by Madhav Pai - April 23, 2020
Inequality is shaping how people are experiencing COVID-19 in cities to a startling degree. The vulnerability of the urban poor is striking

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