Dr. Shipra Narang

An urban planner from SPA Delhi and CEPT University Ahmedabad, Dr Shipra Narang Suri worked for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in different capacities and locations around the world for over a decade, before joining the University of York, U.K. as a Ph.D. researcher in 2006. In 2009 she attained a Ph.D. in Post-War Recovery Studies from the Department of Politics at the University of York.

Dr Narang Suri has extensive field experience from Asia, Africa and the Balkans in the areas of urban governance, urban planning and management, and post-conflict recovery. She has regularly provided policy support to national and local governments, and has also undertaken a wide range of project formulation, training material development, and capacity building activities in the aforementioned areas. She has been a consultant for UNESCO, UN-HABITAT and UNDP. Her current assignments include development of an urban governance assessment framework for UNDP Nigeria; formulation of a guidance note on urban recovery after disasters for UNDP‟s Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery (Geneva); and development of a strategic framework to improve women‟s safety in public spaces in Delhi, for UN-HABITAT and the Government of Delhi.

Dr Narang Suri is an Associate/Visiting Fellow at the University of York and has lectured at various universities in India and abroad, including the University of York, and the K.U. Leuven, Belgium. She has participated in numerous seminars, conferences and high-level workshops. In April 2009, she was invited to make a presentation at a workshop on “Stepping Stones to Better Urbanisation”, organized by the Built Environment Professions in the Commonwealth (BEPIC) in London. She was also one of the four international panelists at a roundtable titled “International perspectives on European urbanization”, organized as part of the URBACT Annual Conference 2008 in Montpellier in December 2008. She is the Editor (Special Features) of the reputed international journal City. She has been a member of ISOCARP since 2000 and has been invited to play the role of General Rapporteur of the forthcoming ISOCARP Congress in Nairobi, on the theme “Sustainable City, Developing World”. Dr Narang Suri is currently based in New Delhi, India.