Zainab Kakal

Project Lead, Initiative to Catalyse Urban Innovations, WRI India Sustainable Cities

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Zainab is the Project Lead for the Initiative to Catalyse Urban Innovations at EMBARQ India. She is leading the work around Emerging Business Trends in Mobility Entrepreneurship. She develops and manages the entrepreneur facing programs that help the private sector work effectively with governments to facilitate better transport in cities.

Prior to EMBARQ, Zainab worked in the social enterprise and sustainability space across the sectors of energy, construction, tourism and impact investing. Having traveled to more than 30 countries, her passion for travel led her to start the consulting division of The Blue Yonder, a responsible travel company where she liaised with Government and private sector for sustainable destination development.

Zainab also co-founded Girl Travels The World, a travel programme which funds Indian women who want to travel solo in India with a significant outcome in mind. She is a member of the Global Shapers Community of World Economic Forum. An alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Zainab has a background in mass media and development. She is a yoga enthusiast, and loves to write poetry.

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