Dipan Bose is a Senior Transport Specialist with the World Bank's Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF). He is a road safety engineer by training with research experience in the areas of vehicle safety and multi-sectoral road safety management, with a focus on designing road injury interventions for low and middle-income countries. In his current role, he supports the governments of India and Bangladesh and the broader South Asia region to develop national road safety programs by providing technical support and preparing and supervising World Bank-financed projects.
Previously, he managed GRSF's grant from the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety program from 2014 to 2020, which focused on improving road safety in selected cities and countries in the developing world. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2012, he was a Research Scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Applied Biomechanics, where he focused on vehicle restraint systems and developing injury risk functions for pedestrians and vulnerable occupants.
He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia Department of Mechanical Engineering.