director@niua.org
Dr. Debolina Kundu, Director (Additional Charge) NIUA has over 25 years of professional experience in the field of development studies. She has worked as consultant with the ADB,LSE, IIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCAP, KfW, GIZ, Urban Institute, Washington and East-West Centre Honolulu on issues of urbanization, migration, urban development policies, municipal finance, social protection, governance and exclusion.
At NIUA, she is the Country Investigator - India for the GCRF Centre for Sustainable Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods supported by UK Research and Innovation and leading several projects supported by World Bank and KfW. She is a member of various committees formed by central and state governments, including the Fifth Delhi Finance Commission. She has several articles published in books and journals. She recently edited a book on National Urban Policies (Springer) and is currently working on a ‘Handbook on Urbanisation in the Global South’ and books on urban policies and inequality. She is the chief editor of journals - Environment and Urbanisation, Asia (SAGE) and Urban India (NIUA). She was a Co-Chair of the Task Force on LiFE, Resilience, and Values for Wellbeing under G20 Think Tank initiative.