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About the webinar
Women remain significantly underrepresented in the transport sector workforce — including in the planning, design, and operation of electric mobility systems. Yet evidence from across Asia and the Pacific shows that when women participate fully in the e-mobility sector — as planners, engineers, entrepreneurs, and leaders — the systems that result are more inclusive, more innovative, and more sustainable.
This session will explore initiatives that are advancing women's participation, leadership, and economic empowerment in the electric mobility ecosystem. Discussions will examine real-world approaches being used by governments, industry, and development organizations to remove barriers to women's inclusion and to create meaningful opportunities for women across the e-mobility value chain.
As the transition to electric mobility accelerates across Asia and the Pacific, the decisions made today about who designs, builds, operates, and benefits from these systems will have long-term consequences for equity and effectiveness. Ensuring that women are active drivers of this transition — not simply passengers — is both a social imperative and a practical condition for success.
This webinar is the third in a three-part series entitled Empowering Inclusion: Gender and Workforce Transitions in E-Mobility, organized by the Asian Development Bank's Transport Sector Office. The series examines how the transition to electric mobility can be planned and managed to advance gender equity, workforce inclusion, and women's economic empowerment across Asia and the Pacific.
This webinar forms part of the E-Mobility Support and Investment Platform for Asia and the Pacific, managed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and supported by the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Environment Programme.
About the speakers
| Keisha Mayuga is an Adviser at GIZ TUMI (Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative), based in Berlin, where she works on mobility topics including gender and social inclusion, popular transport, electrification, and health. A sustainable urban transport practitioner with more than seven years of experience in development communications, project management, and knowledge management, she has previously worked with the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and Clean Air Asia, and led urban planning initiatives across cities and local government units in the Philippines. Keisha holds an MBA in Sustainable Mobility from TU Berlin and a background in urban and regional planning and journalism. She was named one of GIZ TUMI's Remarkable Feminist Voices in Transport in 2023 and is a recipient of the Philippines' Top Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service (TOWNS) award for her work in urban transport.
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| Neeti Katoch is a Gender Specialist (Private Sector) at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), where she works on gender equality and inclusion in private sector investment projects and operations, including gender lens investing, gender action planning, and impact measurement. Prior to joining ADB, she served as Africa Regional Gender Advisor at TechnoServe and as an analyst in Finance and Private Sector Development at the World Bank. She holds a Master's degree in Development Economics and International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School and an undergraduate degree from Delhi University.
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| Shritu Shrestha, a co-head of Research Unit UN-Habitat Collaborating Center at the Wuppertal Institute, specialises in climate mitigation and adaptation, with a particular focus on low-carbon and climate-resilient transport systems and urban development in developing countries. She conducts research on sustainable buildings, urban mobility, electric mobility, energy access, transport policy and gender inclusion.
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| Yogesh Kumar is the Founder of Even Cargo, India’s first all women fleet logistics company, a social enterprise, training and placing women from underserved communities into last-mile delivery and green mobility roles. His work focuses on opening non-traditional livelihoods for women in the platform and gig economy. A Fulbright-Nehru Fellow with a gold medal in Social Entrepreneurship from TISS, Mumbai and a background in Engineering and Public Administration, he has advised national and international organisations on gender and transport, social security for platform workers, and women's participation in the EV sector. He is a recipient of the Commonwealth Youth Award, the Global Citizen Award, and the Westerwelle Young Founders Award, Berlin.
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