Dr. Shipra Narang Suri is an urban planner with a Ph.D. in Post-War Recovery Studies from the University of York, UK.  Shipra has a keen interest and extensive experience in issues of urban planning and management, good urban governance and indicators, livability and sustainability of cities, urban safety, as well as post-conflict/ post-disaster recovery. She is also the co-Chair of the World Urban Campaign, a platform that brings together a large array of global organisations to advocate for sustainable urbanisation.

Shipra has worked with the United Nations, specifically, UN-HABITAT, UNDP, and UNESCO, for over sixteen years, and is currently based in Delhi. She has recently concluded a year-long assignment in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) where she led a country-wide project on local governance for UNDP Myanmar. She has worked in Asia, Africa, South Eastern Europe and the Middle-East. She is an Associate (Visiting Fellow) at the Department of Politics, University of York (U.K.), and has also lectured at several universities in India, Europe and the US. She is an Editor of the international journal ‘CITY’, and a member of a global think tank on ‘Livable Cities’ set up by Philips. Shipra has been involved in the development and execution of a variety of development, research and training projects and programmes, is a regular public speaker at national and international fora, and has several publications to her credit.

E-mail: shipra.narang@gmail.org