Dr Binti Singh is a Visiting Senior Fellow at IMPRI. She is an urban sociologist and holds a Ph.D. (in urban studies) and an M.Phil. (in Planning and Development) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay), Mumbai, India. She is currently Dean, Research and Academic Development at KRVIA, Mumbai. She is engaged in diverse international research programs with universities like the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, University of Cambridge, UK and ITC University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands and Danube University Krems, Austria. She also supervises Masters’ and PhD students in various international universities including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Virginia, USA. She is Book Series Editor on Urban Futures with Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Futures/book-series/UBF. She has contributed to several peer reviewed research journals and edited books and is Associate Editor with Oxford Urbanists with a significant contribution “New Frontiers of Urban Theory- A global South Perspective” available at https://www.oxfordurbanists.com/magazine/2019/11/8/newfrontiers-of-urban-theory-a-global-south-perspective. Her articles have also featured in Domus India and Business World Smart Cities publications http://bwsmartcities.businessworld.in/author/Guest-Author/Dr.-Binti-Singh-85194/. Her research engages with questions intersecting technology, design, culture and climate. She has authored seven books Culture, Place, Branding and Activism, an ethnographic study on Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh in India https://www.amazon.com/dp/9383419687/ref=rdr_ext_tmb; The Divided City Ideological and Policy Contestations in Contemporary Urban India https://www.amazon.com/Divided-CityIdeological-Contestations-Contemporary/dp/9813226978 both published in 2018. Her third book Smart City in India: Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory? Routledge, Taylor and Francis https://www.routledge.com/Smart-City-in-India-Urban-Laboratory-Paradigm-or-Trajectory1st-Edition/Singh-Parmar/p/book/9780367374044 was published in November 2019 and was widely discussed including at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK; ITC University of Twente, Netherlands, the Alliance Francaise Mumbai and the Kala Ghoda festival, 2020 in Mumbai. Her fourth book How Will India Fix Her Urban Future? was published in 2020. Her fifth book Resilience and Southern Urbanism Towards a New Paradigm https://www.routledge.com/Resilience-and-Southern-Urbanism-Towards-a-NewParadigm/Singh-Parmar/p/book/9780367563523 published by Routledge was globally launched on the 11th May 2022 by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), USA. Her sixth book Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City https://www.routledge.com/Negotiating-Resilience-with-Hard-andSoft-City/Singh-Berger-Parmar/p/book/9781032440378 is published by Routledge in March 2023. On 12 January 2023, she received an award from the Governor of Maharashtra, India, for her contribution to academic research in cultural sustainability. Her seventh book Cities of India Changes and Choices was launched by Honourable Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India, Shri Nitin Gadkari ji in the 2nd Sustainability Summit on the 12th April 2023.”