Road Safety Specialist, Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF), Transport Anchor, World Bank, International.

Dipan Bose is a Road Safety Specialist with the Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) at the World Bank's Transport Anchor. He is a road safety engineer by training with research experience in developing interventions to mitigate road crash-related trauma. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2012, he was a Research Scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics focusing on the vehicle restraint systems and injury epidemiology program.

Dr. Bose will spoke about Gender and Safety in Transportation at the Gender Summit 3 North America 2013. He brought to this task his understanding of female driver vulnerability when involved in motor vehicle crashes and the relevance to health policies and vehicle regulations to promote injury reduction. He will also draw on his experience to speak about the global context of mainstreaming gender issues in transport projects.