Aromar Revi – Kapuscinski Development Lectures – what top thinkers think about development

Aromar Revi is the Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), India’s first prospective National University for Research and Innovation to address challenges of urbanisation through an integrated programme of education, research, consulting and advisory services. He has been a senior advisor to various ministries of the Government of India, and has consulted with a wide range of UN, multilateral, bilateral development and private sector institutions. He works on economic, environmental and social change at global, regional and urban scales. Aromar has led over a hundred major research, consulting and implementation assignments in India and abroad. He has helped structure, design and review development investments in excess of $4 billion. In additon to involvement in multiple international projects in half a dozen countries, he has worked on three of the world’s ten largest cities, and with communities across twenty-five of India’s twenty-eight states. He is also one of South Asia’s leading disaster mitigation and management experts and has led emergency teams to assess, plan and execute recovery and rehabilitation programmes for ten major earthquake, cyclone, surge and flood events affecting over five million people. Aromar is considered a leading expert on Global Environmental Change especially on Climate Change adaptation and mitigation. He is one of the Coordinating Lead Authors for the Urban Areas section of the IPCC 5th Assessment report (2014).

Urban at heart of Sustainable Development Goals

05.11.2014, Cape Town, SA

The battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities.