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Shin-pei Tsay is Director of Policy for Cities and Transportation in Uber’s Central Policy team. Shin-pei comes from a diverse background, with a focus on transforming the built environment so that it is more accessible, equitable, and sustainable around the globe. In her current role at Uber, she leads a team of issues experts that contribute to creating a sustainable, multi-modal urban future.

Prior to joining Uber’s team, she founded Make Public, a social impact analysis firm that specializes in the public realm. Shin-pei was also the deputy executive director of TransitCenter, a national foundation focused on improving urban transportation. As the second person hired, she contributed to growing the organization, led initiatives in strategy, research, and program development, managed transportation and technology program activities, and provided program, operational, and staff oversight.

Shin-pei founded and directed the Cities and Transportation Program under the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she explored demand-side policies to mitigate climate change and led a project with Senator Bill Bradley and Secretary Tom Ridge to reform and fund the federal transportation program.

For the last four years, Shin-pei served as a Commissioner for the City of New York Public Design Commission. She is on the Board of the national non-profit In Our Backyard. She received a BA with distinction from Cornell University and an MSc in City, Space, and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science.