Sobia Rafiq is an Urban Development Professional with over ten years of working in the environmental and planning space. She co-founded Sensing Local in 2016, a Bengaluru-based Urban Living Lab that applies an evidence-based systems approach to urban planning through participatory planning and design. She has anchored several innovative projects in Sustainable Mobility, Waste Management, Public Space Design, Water Management, and Governance; and worked with a wide range of stakeholders.