Dr.Kalpana Gopalan IAS:Economic Growth or Social Apartheid: PGPPM 2015 IIMB: 22.06.2015 (3)

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The first of a series three sessions on Urbanization to the scholars of PGPPM 2015, IIM Bangalore along with the animated discussion that followed. The first of a series three sessions on Urbanization to the scholars of PGPPM 2015, IIM Bangalore, along with the animated discussion that followed(Video in 4 parts). Short note on speaker. Practitioner, scholar, policymaker, author and mother, Kalpana Gopalan’s 27 year work experience in the Indian Administrative Service and public policy research spans urban and rural development, land management, infrastructure and public private partnerships. Kalpana holds a Masters and PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and was Visiting Fellow in McGill, Concordia, Salerno, Syracuse & Sussex Universities. She is Advisor to Greater Bangalore City Municipal Corporation; researches with Institute of Social & Economic Change, Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, National Institute of Urban Affairs New Delhi and Kuvempu University, Shimoga; and associates with the Grassroots Research & Advocacy Movement, Mysore and Centre for Youth and Development Mangalore for social sector activities. She lives in Bangalore and presents and publishes globally. This is a brief version, adapted for a Toastmasters session, of a longer keynote address delivered at a conference. The views in the speech are hers alone, and meant purely for academic discussion only.