Jaya Dhindaw is Director, Integrated Urban Planning, WRI India. Her role entails advancing goals for sustainable development in Indian cities to enable and influence knowledge building and on-ground impactful interventions through instruments such as Transit Oriented Development and Structural Reforms. She has over 16 years of global experience in Sustainable Urban Planning. Before WRI India, Jaya was a lead urban planner at the Center for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.