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LAKE SAGARIS

Associate Researcher, Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile


Lake Sagaris is an internationally recognised expert on cycle-inclusive urban planning, civil society development, and participatory planning theory and practice as they relate to urban-regional governance. She has increasingly used a gender perspective to highlight aspects of transport and mobility justice and intersectionality in both her research and her teaching, pioneering studies on women, safety and public transport (Santiago case study, Ella se mueve segura, CAF/FIA Foundation) and action-research partnerships to create gender, civil and social justice programs as part of Cool routes to schools programs in vulnerable neighbourhoods in cities large and small. In 2019, the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative of the German Development Agency, ITDP and others included her in their list of Remarkable Women in Transport.

 An award-winning writer and editor, she began her working life in Chile in 1980, as a freelance journalist with the London Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, Miami Herald, and other media. She is a fellow of Ashoka, a global network of social entrepreneurs (since 2007), and a fellow of Synergos, a global network of senior civil society professionals (since 2008). She has been recognised as an honorary member of the Faculty of Public Health (2024 UK) for her work on transport, gender, age and health, UN World Cycling Day Award (2022), Notable Woman of Transport (TUMI-GTZ 2019), among other awards. 
 She uses participatory action research methods and community-government partnerships in Santiago and other regions (Chile) to apply an intermodal approach based on “ecologies of modes and actors” to transition towards more sustainable transport. She focuses on resilience, social justice and inclusion, particularly gender, safety and security issues. These experiences have led to awards in Chile and abroad, participation in a UN Expert Group meeting on sustainable transport, and presentations in in Latin America, Europe, Canada, Taiwan, the US, and India. 
  

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