Tune in Monday, November 7 at 12:30pm CEST for a live webinar with Aromar Revi, Director of the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), India’s prospective independent national University for Research & Innovation addressing its challenges of urbanisation.
Aromar will continue the conversation on urban sustainability from Habitat III and speak about his upcoming course, Sustainable Cities. Join as he talks about his passion for cities, how he came to work in the field and how aspiring practitioners can get involved. Questions will be answered during the live, one-hour webinar session. Submit yours beforehand at sdgacademy@unsdsn.org.
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Aromar Revi is an international practitioner, consultant, researcher and educator with over thirty years of inter-disciplinary experience in public policy and governance, the political economy of reform, development, technology, sustainability and human settlements.
He is a member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), co-chair of its Urban thematic group, where he leads a global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).
He has been a senior advisor to various ministries of the Government of India, consulted with a wide range of UN, multilateral, bilateral development and private sector institutions and works on economic, environmental and social change at global, regional and urban scales. He was responsible for the development of housing and urban development plans for two-thirds of India’s states in the 1990s.
Learn more about Aromar’s accomplishments here.