Smrithi Prasad is an Architect and an Urban Designer. She holds a Masters degree in Urban Design from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelors degree in Architecture from AMS Academy of Architecture, affiliated to Anna University. She had undertaken several crash courses in Singapore, London, and Germany relating to sustainable urban development and mobility through the collaboration of CEPT University with Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore, Transport For London(TFL), Oxford Brookes University, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The experience prior to associating with ITDP include working as an intern in GIZ-India facilitating technical support for the projects of Sustainable Urban Development -Smart Cities (SUD-SC) to the Tamil Nadu State Nodal partners namely Directorate of Town and Country Planning (DTCP) and Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) under the Housing and Urban Development Department. She had also worked on the Quantified Cities Movement, participatory walkability mapping, and digitization of roads for identifying road hierarchies in Pune using the iNagrik mobile application for measuring urban mobility during her internship at Centre for Development Studies and Activities (CDSA), Pune.
Smrithi is a very self-motivated person having a good insight into urban context research and design development. She is also very passionate about safe, sustainable, and inclusive transportation systems.