Iryna Bondarenko is an Urban Mobility Associate on the Health and Road Safety team at the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. She provides technical assistance on road safety and sustainable mobility to cities in Latin America and Africa, contributing crash data analysis, design reviews, and technical guidance on Safe System approach.

Before joining WRI, Iryna worked with international organizations, government agencies, and consultancies, including the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations Development Programme, the District of Columbia Department of Transportation, Egis, and A+S Ukraine. Her work has included modeling transportation scenarios for Ukraine's recovery, developing Ukraine's National Bicycle Strategy, contributing to a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, designing parking demand and pricing studies, and building methods to prioritize street safety investments. She has conducted fieldwork and planning in Europe, North and Latin America, and Africa, and has co-authored policy papers, technical reports, and peer-reviewed research.

Iryna holds a Master's degree in Community Planning from the University of Maryland, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, as well as graduate certificates in Data Science from the Ukrainian Catholic University. She is also an alumna of the Edmund S. Muskie and DAAD fellowship programs.

Originally from Ukraine, Iryna now lives in Appalachia. She enjoys exploring national parks and embroidering traditional Ukrainian shirts.