Tandia is a transport economist based in Blantyre, Malawi, working at the intersection of urban mobility, transport equity, and gender. She holds a Master of Commerce in Transport Economics from Stellenbosch University, where her thesis examined women’s socioeconomic empowerment and urban mobility in Blantyre. Her research addresses informal transport systems, transport poverty, non-motorised transport, and last-mile connectivity in Sub-Saharan African cities, with an empirical base in Blantyre and growing exposure to Nairobi’s transport planning context. She currently consults for the World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF), supporting a global RCT evidence library on development interventions. Tandia is a member of the Economics Association of Malawi and the Economic Society of South Africa. She has presented at the World Conference on Transport Research and been selected for the Volvo Research First Global Convening on Informal and Shared Mobility.
Selected publications or texts
‘Transport and the Socioeconomic Empowerment of Women in Blantyre’, Master’s thesis, Stellenbosch University Institutional Repository (2025).
‘Transport and Women’s Access to Socioeconomic Activities in Blantyre, Malawi: Evidence from a Mixed-Methods Study’, accepted for lectern presentation at the World Conference on Transport Research (2026), forthcoming in Transportation Research Procedia.
Selected speaking engagements
World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), 2026: lectern presentation, ‘Transport and Women’s Access to Socioeconomic Activities in Blantyre, Malawi: Evidence from a Mixed-Methods Study’.
First Global Convening on Informal and Shared Mobility, 2026: selected for panel and poster presentation, ‘Cost, Governance Failure, and the Gendered Burden of Informal and Shared Mobility in Blantyre’.