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Alexa Delves

Alexa Delves is the content and communications intern at BYCS, focusing on strengthening and amplifying our message of cycling transformation.  – Born in the States but raised in Southeast Asia, cycling was never apart of

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Aparna Saroagi

Aparna Saroagi is on BYCS Board of Advisors, bringing knowledge from finance, entrepreneurship, and gender and LGBTQI+ sectors. – Aparna Saroagi is an IIT Delhi alumnae, a Bharti Scholarship holder, and a TEDx speaker. Her

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Julien Vincelot

Julien Vincelot is on BYCS Board of Advisors, bringing knowledge from Urban, Philanthropy, and Sustainability sectors. – Julien is an engaged urban planner and strategist working in philanthropy, with experience at the intersection of health,

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Tobin Postma

Tobin Postma is on BYCS’ Board of Advisors, bringing knowledge from Urban, Communications, and Policy sectors. – Tobin has been riding bikes for as long as he can remember. No matter where his 15 year

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Tjeu Houben

Tjeu is the Bicycle Mayor Network Intern at BYCS, focusing on the process of onboarding new bicycle mayors, communicating with them, as well as reporting on the status of their activism. Being born in the

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Itsi Alveano Aguerrebere

PhD in Public Policies of child development. Specialist in Road safety with Child approach. Full time researcher on urban development and childhood. Advocate for the children´s right to the city as well as the right

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Tamara Veldboer

Tamara Veldboer is the director of Circle Economy Consulting, with a passion for sustainability. In her role, she works with businesses to identify and implement circular solutions. Additionally, she will now join as the new

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Sarah Roberts

Sarah Roberts has over 20 years experience fundraising for outstanding causes including Greenpeace, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Global Call for Climate Action. Sarah’s fundraising efforts have enabled positive social change across a range of environmental

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Mira Klein

Although having been born in Budapest, Hungary, Mira’s upbringing predominantly took place in various large and industrial cities in areas such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, as well as cosmopolitan and international regions in

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Kharisma Pandu Pratama

Born in Tangerang, Indonesia, and internationally raised in 7 different car-oriented cities, Kharisma experienced and quickly grew aware of the many issues that derive from rapidly growing urban systems. Currently studying in Groningen, he recently

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Matrushri P. Shetty

Matrushri P. Shetty is the Director of Operations and Development at BYCS India Foundation. She works closely with the BYCS Global and India Board of Directors to develop innovative projects in India, through advocacy around

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Valeria Leyva Reyes

Valeria Leyva Reyes is passionate about cities, sustainable development, and social inclusiveness. She is a Mexican Architect who came to the Netherlands to pursue an MSc in Urban Management and Development with a specialisation in

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Silke Riensema

Silke is an enthusiastic student with interests in health and sustainability. One of her missions is to do as much as she can to help society and try to make it a better place. Growing

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Maaike Oskamp

Maaike is born and raised in Amersfoort in the Netherlands. In her free time Maiike enjoys being outside, playing field hockey, travelling and having fun with my friends. I’m really interested in the change of

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Daniela Abril Gutierrez

Born and raised in the warm northern Mexico, Daniela is a woman of restless mind and passionate about urban landscapes and sustainable urban life. She has a BA in Architecture, where she developed a particular

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Julien Vincelot

Julien was born in France and spent his early years and youth in New Delhi and Shanghai. After studying and working in France, India, China, Mexico and the UK, he moved to the Netherlands in

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Simon Alvarez Belon

Simon has been an avid cyclist for as long as he can remember, going on bicycle tours around Spain and the Netherlands from a young age. In pursuing this passion, he began his career with

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Mika Bekkers

Mika is currently conducting his graduation internship at BYCS. He is in his final year of a sports management and business study in Amsterdam. His main interests lying with high performance sports, he is an

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James Crossley

James has honed his creative (and car dodging) skills while cycling between international agencies in grand Amsterdam canal houses and dusty studios above a moped repair shops in Cape Town. Building brands, telling meaningful stories

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Sonal Kulkarni

Ms Sonal Kulkarni is the Director of Strategic Partnerships, Marketing and External Communications at the BYCS India Foundation. She is also the co-founder of Urban Morph, a collaborative urban solutions incubator to nurture sustainable urban

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Dr Bhairavi Naik Joshi

Dr Bhairavi Naik Joshi is Director and CEO at the BYCS India Foundation. With a vision in mind to see India transform into a cycling nation, she came up with the idea of setting up

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Alex Baum

Alex grew up and spent most of his adult life in the U.S. (Rochester and New York City) before relocating to the Netherlands. He enjoys exploring cities and the outdoors by foot, bicycle, boat, or

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Lucas Snaije

Over the years, Lucas has been a cyclist while living in Paris, London, Montreal, Mexico City, Los Angeles and Amsterdam, each one strengthening his desire to work towards healthier and more equitable cities. He previously

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Poly Bhatt

For some years now, Poly has been interested in the potential of digital technologies and online social media platforms to spearhead societal transformation. Exposure to a number of cultures and socioeconomic environments in India and

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Ana Carboni

Today I can say that I am first and foremost a cycling advocate. I have lived and worked in Brazil, the UK, and Uruguay, returning to Niterói, my hometown, in 2014 and moving to Brasília

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Thomas Walskaar

Thomas is BYCS’ creative superstar, Designer & Photographer. After moving to Rotterdam to do this MA in Media Design and Communication at The Piet Zwart Institute, he decided to stay in the Netherlands. Thomas has

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Charlie Burnside

Charlie is a Project & Events coordinator at BYCS. Prior to joining BYCS she gained experience in event management, fundraising and was the relationship manager for some key supporters of an international development charity. Charlie

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Ricardo Bravo

I am a political consultant, I have developed research, analysis and strategies in political campaigns, elaboration of public policies for the government, politicians and others. I also act as Director of Consultancy PODER and Collective

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Maarten Woolthuis

Maarten worked for a number of years across all disciplines related to transport, from managing public tenders to launching new technologies, running public-private contracts, overseeing communications campaigns and building effective stakeholder collaborations. But it was

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Lee Feldman

Lee Feldman is a Creative Strategist, constantly challenging himself and others to innovate and find new horizons for ideas that give humanity the best chance to collectively thrive on our home planet. Pushing the boundaries

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