Madhav Pai, a civil engineer from Mumbai, is the director of the EMBARQ India program and is responsible for overall management and strategy. Over the last ten years he has participated in several complex and innovative transport projects as a researcher, consultant and trainer.

He continues to support city authorities in Indore, where he helped develop various components of their city bus and bus rapid transit systems. He has been involved in reviews, evaluations and studies of city bus and BRT systems in Bangalore, Colombo, Delhi, Pune, Jaipur and Naya Raipur. He has helped secure and managed grants for capacity building activities from the World Bank and the British High Commission.  He has published many academic papers since joining EMBARQ.

Prior to joining EMBARQ he was Regional Director at Citilabs, a transport planning software company, and headed operations in South and Southeast Asia. He supported all activities in the region, including program development and technical support. He has delivered training courses on transport modeling in India, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and the United States. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he spent four years working at Dowling Associates Inc. managing and executing several transport planning, transport modeling and traffic engineering projects. At the Institute of Transport Studies of the University of California, Berkeley, he was involved in assessing the short- and medium-term impacts of City CarShare on travel behavior in the City of San Francisco. In the summer of 2006, he participated in the early conceptualization and design of an open source multi-disciplinary MIS/GIS platform and design of the Bangalore Traffic Information System (BTIS), www.btis.in at Mapunity, a social development start-up in Bangalore.

Mr. Pai holds a master’s degree in transport planning from the University of California, Berkeley.