Chaithra A Navada

Chaithra A Navada is an Associate, Research (Urban) at the Centre for Public Policy Research. She holds a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning with a specialization in transportation from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM).

Her experience spans multimodal transport planning, road safety planning, traffic impact assessments, and policy research aimed at fostering sustainable and equitable urban mobility systems. As a transportation planner, she has contributed to road safety plans for cities and counties in California, Florida, and Texas. She supports projects in the urban and transportation verticals at CPPR, and currently works on a project to improve shared mobility in rural India.