Faela Sufa
Southeast Asia Director
ITDP
Faela Sufa is currently the Director of ITDP Southeast Asia since August 2019. Before, she was the Deputy Director of ITDP Indonesia since 2014. She has worked directly in around 10 countries and over 15 cities giving technical assistance on sustainable urban mobility mainly promoting non-motorised transportation and bus rapid transit systems, building strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders such as governments, private sectors, international financial institutions, and United Nations development agencies.
She holds a Master’s degree in Transport Planning and Engineering from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK). Prior to ITDP, she worked in transport planning and modeling at an international transport consultant firm at the Birmingham office of Mott MacDonald (UK). In this office, she developed her expertise mainly through highway and public transport modeling as well as demand forecasting. She also worked as a research assistant on road geometry design, road pavement, and public transport management at her alma mater, Gadjah Mada University.
