{"id":854,"date":"2026-06-08T07:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=854"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:28:09","slug":"sarika-panda-bhatt","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/speaker\/sarika-panda-bhatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarika Panda Bhatt"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"854\" class=\"elementor elementor-854\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42cdc05 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"42cdc05\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff4800c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ff4800c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;htmega_fe&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Sarika Panda Bhatt is a Director at Nagarro, Co-founder of the Raahgiri Foundation, and <br>a recognized leader in sustainable urban development and social impact. With over 20 <br>years of experience spanning urban planning, transport, environment, architecture, and <br>social development, she has been instrumental in advancing sustainable mobility, road <br>safety, active transportation, and people-centric urban transformation across India.<br><br><\/p><p>Through her leadership of the Raahgiri movement and collaboration with governments, <br>development agencies, academic institutions, and civil society organizations, Sarika <br>has championed safer streets, equitable public spaces, and climate-responsive urban <br>solutions. She is particularly committed to empowering women and youth as agents of <br>change and fostering inclusive cities where everyone can move safely and participate <br>fully in public life.<br><br><\/p><p>Her contributions have received national and international recognition. She was <br>selected by TUMI (Germany) as one of 60 global leaders transforming urban mobility <br>and served as Bicycle Mayor of Gurugram under BYCS, Netherlands. In 2025, she <br>received the National Film Award as a producer for the documentary Silent Epidemic, <br>which brought attention to critical social and public health issues.<br><br><\/p><p>A trained architect, planner, and sociologist, Sarika combines technical expertise with a <br>deep understanding of social dynamics to create vibrant, resilient, and inclusive <br>communities where people are at the heart of urban development<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarika Panda Bhatt is a Director at Nagarro, Co-founder of the Raahgiri Foundation, and a recognized leader in sustainable urban development and social impact. With over 20 years of experience spanning urban planning, transport, environment, architecture, and social development, she has been instrumental in advancing sustainable mobility, road safety, active transportation, and people-centric urban transformation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":856,"template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"hide","_kad_post_layout":"fullwidth","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"unboxed","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"hide","_kad_post_feature":"hide","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":""},"speaker_department":[3],"class_list":["post-854","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker_department-speakers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/854\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speaker_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_department?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}