HOUSTON: Houston Mayor Annise Parker has appointed Sanjay Ramabhadran to the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the appointment was confirmed by Houston City Council on May 27, 2015. He becomes the first Indian-American to serve on the METRO Board. METRO operates a regional multimodal transportation system across 1,300 square miles with 2,663 route miles, a 22.7 mile light rail system, 20 Transit Centers, 29 Park & Ride Facilities, lanes and the complementary paratransit service.
Sanjay Ramabhadran, a registered Professional Engineer, has provided engineering and master planning services to the Industrial and Governmental market segments for 20 years. As Vice President at CP&Y, he directed a Corporate Practice focused on water and infrastructure across the firm’s offices. Previously, he was Principal-In-Charge of a $1 billion global consulting firm, where he managed a Business Practice for Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. He has been an invited speaker at the US-India Infrastructure Summit in New Delhi.
His civic involvement has included serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors of LEADERSHIP HOUSTON; Director in the Texas Lyceum a state-wide leadership group focused on public policy issues impacting Texas; Steering Committee Member Houston General Plan; Senior Fellow American Leadership Forum; President of the HESS Club President of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston; Chairperson of the Houston Mayor’s International Trade & Development Council City of Houston Building & Standards Commission; Greater Houston Partnership’s Public Safety Task Force; Connecting Communities Initiative at Rice University’s Kinder Institute; Co-Chair of the Civic Engagement Advisory Committee for the City of Houston Public Library; Advisory Council Houston Arts Alliance; Past-President of the Indo-American Political Action Committee; and Board of Directors of the Indo-American Charity Foundation.
