Aromar Revi

Director, IIHS

Aromar Revi is the and the founding Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), India’s leading interdisciplinary knowledge institution and distinct University, focused on the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian cities, towns and villages. He is a polymath, local-to-global practice and thought leader, educator and institution builder with over 40 years of interdisciplinary problem solving experience. He is an alumnus of IIT Delhi, and the Law and Management schools of the University of Delhi.

He is one of the world’s leading climate scientists, urban sustainability and disaster risk reduction professionals, has deep governance, institutional development, management and implementation experience, across public, private, academic and civil society institutions. He is a globally ranked scholar across multiple fields (urban, infrastructure, climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development), has lectured and taught at 100 of the world’s leading universities and think tanks across six continents; with over 80,000 participants in MOOCs that he helped design and deliver.

Aromar has over 40 years led 250 major practice, consulting and research assignments in India and abroad, and helped structure, design and review development investments of over USD 15 billion. He has travelled extensively to over 65 countries; worked on 5 of the world’s 10 largest cities; across urban and rural areas in all of India’s 28 states and in 5 union territories, and on multiple international projects across over a dozen countries.

Institutional Building

Over 15 years, Aromar has built IIHS into one of the world’s leading education, research, training, advisory and implementation support institutions in the Global South, focusing on the multi-sectoral and multi-dimensional challenges and opportunities of sustainable urbanisation.

He led the design for UNDRR of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), an India-based international organisation to promote the resilience of infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks. CDRI was launched by the Prime Minister of India at the UN General Assembly and Climate Action Summit 2019 in New York.

Aromar has been a senior advisor to multiple ministries of the Government of India, since the late 1980s; and consulted with a wide range of international development institutions, national and transnational firms on economic, environmental and social change at global, regional and urban scales. This includes extensive in-country and regional experience across key UN, multilateral and bilateral agencies, including: UNDP, UNICEF, UNEP, UN-Habitat, UNDRR, UNESCO, UNU; World Bank, ADB, GCF, DFID, CIDA, GIZ, IDRC, NORAD, RVO, SDC, SIDA, USAID and AusAID/DFAT.

Global Thought Leadership and Scholarship

Aromar is an globally ranked scholar across multiple interdisciplinary fields that intersect with his policy, practice and research work: climate adaptation (#1), disaster risk reduction (#1), rural development (#1), urban (#2), infrastructure (#4), governance (#9) and sustainable development (#10). His work has been cited over 48,000 times, with an h-index of 46, an i10 index of 76.¹

Aromar is a global expert on implementing sustainable development; Co-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), where he led a successful global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 11) as part of the UN’s 2030 development agenda. This brought together global urban institutions (UN-Habitat, UCLG, C-40, ICLEI, Metropolis, Cities Alliance, SDI and WIEGO) and over 300 cities and organisations.

Aromar is a member of key international commissions on water, climate change, finance, health, sustainable development and cities. He was a Commissioner and Lead Expert of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water that presented its report to the UN Global Conference on Water 2023, building on the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (2006), and the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity (2021). He is a Commissioner of the Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance that is defining how cities can obtain more and better financing to implement the SDGs.

Aromar was a Commissioner of the Lancet Pathfinders Commission that identified global, regional and local pathways to a healthy, low-carbon future. He was also a member of the Task Force on Global Health Diplomacy and Cooperation of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission that made recommendations on strengthening global governance and multi-lateral cooperation to build back better post-pandemic, paying particular attention to global health governance and science diplomacy. He was also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Oxford Commission on Creating Healthy Cities.

He is a member of the UCLG-Ubuntu and policy Advisor to the UCLG Presidency. UCLG is the global voice and advocate of local and regional governments, representing 0.24 million towns, cities, metropolises and regions across the world. He was a member of UN-Habitat’s Stakeholder Advisory Group (STAG) tasked with global stakeholder engagement (2019–21). Aromar was also a member of the Managing Board of Cities Alliance, the global partnership for sustainable cities and urban poverty reduction (2016–19).

Aromar was a long-standing Board member of the Balaton Group that pioneered the development of sustainability. He was earlier a Leadership Fellow of the India China Institute, where he worked on long-range development pathways for India and China.

Aromar is a member of the Steering Committee of the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities that has over 430 member universities from 86 countries, the International Advisory Board of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town, the External Advisory Board of the India China Institute (ICI) at the New School University, the Advisory Board of the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Centre for Cities.

Interdisciplinary Practice, Implementation and Research

Aromar has led 250 major implementation, consulting and research assignments in India and across the world, in over a dozen areas: sustainable cities and urban development (41), infrastructure and services (34), disaster risk reduction (33), rural development (27), climate change (24), sustainable development (16), development strategy and international cooperation (15), technology (13), governance and public policy (12), education (13), economics and finance (11), health systems (9), and social transformation (2).

Aromar’s policy, practice and research work lies at the interface of four themes: sustainable development and sustainability science; sustainable urbanisation and the emerging discipline of ‘urban science’; climate action and climate science; and disaster risk reduction and risk science, which he has helped define internationally.

Teaching and Digital Education

Aromar has lectured and taught at over 100 (including 9 of the top 10) leading universities across all six continents, over the last 40 years, across multiple areas of his research and policy competence. He has trained leaders and professionals across the public, private and non-profit sectors for over 35 years, including at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA).

He has led the development of the IIHS Masters of Urban Practice (MUP): Curriculum Framework that led to the creation of a dynamic, interdisciplinary, South Asia-centric and globally relevant curriculum that spans the around two dozen disciplines and practice areas that define urban transformation. This brought together over 200 of India and world’s leading academic, researchers and practitioners, and was supported by MIT, UCL and UFABC. This learner-centric framework for educating professionals, practitioners and researchers from India and other parts of the world, bring together practice and theory, and problem-based learning and has been effectively proven via a decade of teaching at IIHS.

Over 80,000 people from 160 countries have registered for massive open online courses (MOOCs) curated and anchored by Aromar. In 2016, UNSDSN and the SDG Academy launched a 70-session global MOOC on Sustainable Cities and SDG 11, curated by him, featuring 30 of the world’s leading urbanists and shot on location in 20 cities across six continents. Over 67,000 participants from 160 countries have registered for this course, also on edX, making it one of the top five urban courses in the world. Aromar is the academic anchor for a MOOC on The Art and Science of Economic Policy, which provides an understanding of the relevance and impact of economic policymaking in everyday life, and the means for citizens to be involved in shaping economic policy. The course runs on Coursera and has over 8,500 participants registered. He has also participated in a MOOC on Shaping Urban Futures, which brought together leading urban researchers from the University of Oxford, University of Cape Town, Peking University, EAFIT University and IIHS, and has had over 6,000 participants.

Journals

Aromar is the Editor of the international interdisciplinary journal Urbanisation (Sage) and on the Editorial Boards of Urban Climate (Elsevier), International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development (Taylor & Francis), npj Urban Sustainability (Springer), Sustainable Earth Reviews (Springer), and Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy (University of Toronto Press).

Multi-stakeholder Negotiation

He has led and managed multiple sensitive international and national multi-stakeholder negotiations and strategy development. In 2020, he led a special XV Finance Commission report on The Potential of Urbanisation to Accelerate Post-COVID Economic Recovery that defined a USD 300 billion package of strategic measures and priorities at national, state and regional levels to enable the process of urbanisation to accelerate post-COVID-19 economic recovery, which would impact 450 million people in about 8,000 urban areas over 2021–31.

In 2014, he assisted the Government of India in the partition of the erstwhile state of Andhra Pradesh, with a population of 85 million people. Aromar led a complex process of structuring a USD 75 billion investment plan for infrastructure and development across all districts and cities for the successor state of 50 million people; helped identify options for a new state capital and conducted stakeholder negotiations and public consultations across the state, over four months.

Aromar was one of the dozen thought leaders from across the world invited in 2019 by the South African Presidency to review South Africa’s progress 25 years after the end of Apartheid and help define pathways to overcome its persistent socio-economic challenges towards shared growth, sustainable development and prosperity.

Climate Change

Aromar is one of the world’s leading experts on global environmental change, and the most cited author in the world on climate adaptation. He has served the IPCC for over three assessment cycles (AR5, AR6 and the current AR7).

He was a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the seminal 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) that was released in 2018 to global scientific and media acclaim. SR1.5 identified four major global system transitions necessary for the successful implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, assessed the feasibility of mitigation and adaptation options, and defined investment and other enabling conditions.

He was a CLA of the synthesis chapter on Climate Resilient Development Pathways (CRD) of the IPCC Working Group Assessment Report 6 (AR6) on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, which defined CRD as a process of implementing greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation options to support sustainable development for all. It identified five system transitions, key options and multiple pathways by which communities, nations and the world can pursue CRD, based on timely societal choices.

He was also a member of the Core Writing Team (CWT) of the 2023 IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report (SYR) that considered policy priorities for climate action between now and 2030–40. He was earlier a CLA of the IPCC Assessment Report 5 (AR5) on Urban Areas, which established the role of cities and regions in addressing climate risks in 2014. He was a Co-PI of ASSAR, a large five-year international Climate Adaptation research programme that spanned India and eight countries in Africa, and explored mechanisms to take climate adaptation to scale in semi-arid regions.

Aromar has worked extensively to bring the global urban and climate change agendas together. He is the CLA of ‘Chapter 1: Cities in the Context of Climate Change’ of the IPCC AR7 Special Report on Cities and Climate Change. He was a Co-lead of the independent four-report Summary for Urban Policymakers series of the IPCC AR6 cycle on Climate Science, Adaptation and Mitigation. A synthesis report of this series was presented at CoP27 in Egypt in 2022, and formed the basis for the first ministerial discussion at a CoP. He was earlier a CLA of the SR1.5 Summary for Urban Policymakers, released at CoP24 in Poland in 2018.

Aromar was a CLA of the Scaling Up Climate Finance Report 2021 that was commissioned by the Green Climate Fund (GCF). He was a member of the GCoM-Climate-KIC global Policy Innovation Task Force that helped cities and local governments worldwide define a common, groundbreaking vision of transformational urban systems change to achieve deep decarbonisation by 2030.

Disaster Risk Reduction

He is one of South Asia’s most experienced risk and disaster management professionals, having led teams to plan and execute rehabilitation programmes for 10 major earthquake, cyclone and flood events affecting over five million people, and has been a member of the Advisory Board of UNISDR/DRR’s Scientific & Technical Advisory Group (STAG) and eight of its bi-annual Global Assessment of Risk (GAR) reports since 2008. He is a co-author of the synthesis chapter of the CDRI’s Global Infrastructure Resilience report (2023) and assisted the Ministry of Home Affairs in the process of the amendment of the Disaster Management Act (2025).

Sustainable Cities

Aromar led a successful global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 11) as part of the UN’s 2030 development agenda. He was a member of the UCL-Nature Sustainability Expert Panel on science and the future of cities, which issued its seminal 2018 report on the global state of the urban science–policy interface.²

He was a Co-I on three large international urban research programmes that have helped redefine: the future of urban science (PEAK), responses to urban inequality (KNOW) and urban risk (Risk Hub), with leading universities and researchers from across five continents.

He co-authored IIHS’ reports on Localising SDGs for India 2019 and the India SDG Report (2018) that presented the first comprehensive state-level assessment of performance across key SDGs in India.

Aromar helped develop a long-term planning, economic transformation and design framework for sustainable cities in the early 2000s. He was a team leader of the international award-winning Goa 2100 Sustainable RUrban systems project that developed a vision, design and investment plan for a 100-year sustainability transition in western India. He subsequently led the India team in the ‘Bridging to the Future’ urban planning programme that brought together the Greater Shanghai and Greater Vancouver regions, three provinces in the Netherlands, and the state of Goa in India.

Rural Development

Aromar has led the process of developing India’s National Action Plan for Rural Housing, 19 State Action Plans and the scale-up of India’s rural housing programme that enabled the building of two million houses a year over 1995–2012 at an overall investment of over USD 8 billion. He was active in reviewing and designing a sector reform programme for the rural water sector that led to the development of a USD 0.45 billion investment plan, and in developing a 15-year sustainable rural livelihoods and watershed development programme in Himachal Pradesh.

Housing and Human Settlements

Aromar has made significant contributions to human settlements’ development in India, for which he was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 1990. This includes a key role in the design of India’s national public housing programme, which facilitated the building of over two million rural houses a year; infrastructure planning, upgrading and institutional reform in multiple million-plus cities. Aromar has served on high-level committees of the Government of India and was responsible for the development of housing and urban development plans for two-thirds of India’s states in the 1990s.

Technology and Innovation

Aromar has led the planning, design and execution of the USD 200 million, 54-acre, IIHS Campus in Kengeri, Bengaluru, that will host up to 3,000 learners and 600 faculty and staff, and set global benchmarks for teaching–learning, sustainability, and digital connectivity, and establish the world’s first mega-city Long-Term Urban Ecological Observatory (LTUEO). The Campus is expected to be one of the greenest net-zero and disaster-resilient campuses in the world, with high-performance buildings, physical and digital infrastructure and services, integrated with biodiversity, conservation, sustainable agriculture and forestry. This builds on four decades of experience and leadership in technological innovation in built environment and infrastructure, using innovative low-energy, local materials and building systems deployed in lakhs of buildings across rural and urban India.

Health Systems

He has worked on a range of themes on health systems ranging from environmental health, built environment and health, and immunisation systems to more recent work during the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency response and global health diplomacy. He co-led one of the first systematic appraisals of private health provision in India in 2001. He is a member of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission on pathways to a healthy, low- carbon future and on the International Advisory Board of the Oxford Commission on Creating Healthy Cities, which presented its findings to the UK Parliament in 2022.

Education Policy

Apart from his pivotal role in building IIHS into a leading heterodox, 21st-century educational institution, Aromar has made significant contributions to domestic and international policy and innovation in higher education. This includes developing a roadmap for higher education sector reform, priorities for this reform, public investment and private participation in the sector, for the Government of India. He has co-led the development of IIHS’ Higher Education Atlas and School Education Atlas for India, which enables tracking and planning across the entire education sector in the country, from the village, town and city level, through the district, state and country level.

Public Lectures and Appearances

Over the last decade, Aromar has delivered close to 600 keynote addresses, speeches, and seminars, and made public and TV appearances across the world. He has addressed special sessions of the 77th UN General Assembly on Water in 2023, the Second Committee (on Economics & Finance) of the UN General Assembly in 2020, the 71st UN General Assembly on the New Urban Agenda on Sustainable Cities, in 2014 and 2017, the UN Open Working Group on the SDGs in 2014, the UN-Habitat Governing Council in 2015, the Opening Plenary of the UNDRR Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) in 2019, and TEDx Palais des Nations on Sustainable Cities in Geneva in 2015.

He delivered the first Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Africa on sustainable cities in 2014; the Khemka Distinguished Lecture on India’s urbanisation at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015; the annual Curtin University Lecture on Sustainability in 2016. In 2017, he opened the Going Global Higher Education Summit 2017 in London on the ‘University and the City’ and the EcoCity World Summit in Melbourne. In 2018, he delivered the opening keynote addresses at the CitiesIPCC conference in Edmonton and at the Urban-20 (U-20) Summit in Buenos Aires. In 2021, he delivered the Tata Sustainability Lecture on the Urgency for Ecosystem Restoration.

¹ Google Scholar, accessed 25 March 2025

² https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0209-7, accessed 25 March 2025

Sustainable cities and Urban development

Shaping Urban Futures MOOC (2022)
Member of the Govt. of India, High-Level Committee (HLC) on Urban Sector Policies (2022-23).
Co-PI PEAK interdisciplinary international, urban research programme led by the University of Oxford and funded by RCUK GCRF, that brings together research teams from, Peking University, University of Cape Town, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, and EAFIT University. (2018-2022)
Co-PI of the KNOW research programme to deliver transformative research and capacity-building for innovation in policy and planning to promote urban equality led by DPU at the University College London and a global consortium of 13 institutions, from nine countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, that includes IIHS. (2018-2022)
Team Leader and curator of the IIHS-SDG academy Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Sustainable Cities. Over 20,000 participants from 150 countries registered for this, over four cycles. This has now been launched on the EdX platform. (2016-present)
Co-author of GiZ funded SDSN SDG Guidebook for Cities “Getting started with the SDGs for Cities: A Guide for Local Stakeholders”. (2015-2016)
Indian Team Leader on the MISTRA Urban Futures project on Urban SDG indicators. (2014-2015)
Member of the K C Sivaramakrishnan Committee of the Govt. of India, responsible for the identification of options for a new state capital for the successor state of Andhra Pradesh, with a population of 50 million. (2014)
Project Director of the IIHS-Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) Knowledge Partnership to support the BDA in the development of the revised Bangalore Master Plan 2035. (2010-2012)
Member of Advisory Committee of L’avenir d’Auroville, the township planning and development organization of Auroville. (2009-2011)
Project Director of the WSP Review of Sanitation and Sewerage interventions in Urban India. (2007-2008)
Indian Team Leader for the international Bridging to the Future (BttF) project initiated by the International Gas Union (IGU), as a follow-up to the three-year Sustainable Urban Systems Design (SUSD) competition, concluded in Tokyo in 2003. (2004-2006)
One of the three Indian Team Leaders of the international award-winning Goa 2100 Sustainable City design project presented at the Sustainable Urban Systems Design (SUSD) competition in Tokyo in June 2003. (2002-2003)
Project Director for the review of Infrastructure Improvements and Participatory Poverty Appraisal of DFID funded Kolkata Urban Services Programme. (2005)
Team Leader, assisting CARE-India in Developing a Strategy for Urban Secondary City Development. (1999)
Team Leader of a global research review by UNEP that examined the linkage between policy, programmes and scientific research on the Impact of Housing and the Domestic Built Environment on the Health of Women and Children. (1998)
Team Leader of a participative research project that developed new methods of Child-centered Programme appraisal for PLAN International. (1994)
Senior Consultant to the Planning Commission, Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (GoI) in the development of Nineteen State Action Plans for the Housing and Urban Development sector over the 1991-2001 period, including Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and other backward States. (1992-7)
Team leader of an early study to define urban sustainability ‘Towards Sustainable Development: A Preliminary Study of Resource Flows in Roorkee’. (1992)
Team leader of a research study on the Everyday Structure & working of the Real economy of cities for United Nations University. (1989)
Team member of the National Evaluation of Sites & Services (S&S) projects in India for ODA. (1988)
Core-team member of the National Campaign for Housing Rights (NCHR) a nationwide campaign that brought together civil society, political representatives and leading jurists to mobilise for and draft an amendment to the Indian constitution that made Housing a Fundamental Right. (1986-89)

Sustainable Development and Futures

Member of the High Level Advisory Group (HLAG) to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Sustainable Development. (2022-)
Commissioner, Lancet Pathfinder Commission that has identified and communicate global, regional and local pathways to a healthy, low carbon future. (2020-22)
Co-author of the IIHS’ report on Localising SDGs for India 2019: Tracking the Changing Urban Context. This analyses SDG trends across the SDG indicator set used in 2018 and builds on other reports in this space. (2019)
Thought leader, invited by the South African Presidency 25-years after the end of Apartheid to Review South Africa’s progress and define pathways to overcome its persistent socio-economic challenges towards shared growth, sustainable development and prosperity. (2019)
Co-author of the India SDG Report (2018) produced by IIHS that presents the first comprehensive state level assessment of performance across key Sustainable Development Goals. (2017-2018)
Project Director of the UNDP-IIHS Framework for Integrated Planning, Development and Resilience building for India. (2010-2012)
Co-Team leader of the India 2050 project that developed India’s first dynamic long-range national economy-resource-demographic model in collaboration with an international research team from MNP/RIVM, Netherlands ^[1]and the University of Denver, USA^[2]. (2005-2008)
Participant in the cross-cutting Global Vulnerability, Adaptation & Resilience^[3] research initiative of International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP). (2005-2006)
Contributed to the Mappae Mundi research project which examines humans and their habitat in a long-term socio-ecological prospective from 5000 BP to the present. (2002)
Team member of a feasibility study of establishing a commercial global Carbon Bank to enable trading and market consolidation of climate-change related emissions. (2002)
Chaired and helped manage a series of international Conferences on Global Sustainability for the Balaton Group including Sustainable Settlements (1996); Sustainability and Time (1997); Global Scenarios for Sustainability (1998) and Transition Scenarios to Sustainability (2000). (1993-2001)
Team leader for the preparation of the India sub-Model of RIVM’s World 4.0 Model to investigate the impact of Climate change on global and regional population, resources and economy. (1993-94)
Led the team that prepared a Status Report on Participatory Planning for Sustainable Development for the Strategic Planning Unit of the World Bank. (1990)
Member of the research team working on the Design and Management of Complex Systems for the United Nations University (UNU). (1989)
Member of the team that prepared a Working Paper on Participatory Design and Sustainable Development for the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). (1986).

^[1] http://www.mnp.nl/en/index.html

^[2] http://www.du.edu/~bhughes/ifswelcome.html

^[3] http://www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de/html/projects/i-ccuttingQ.htm

Climate Change

Nominated expert for the Scoping of IPCC AR7 Special Report on Cities in Riga, Latvia (2024)
Co-I of the Volkswagen Foundation-funded Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equality (ReSET) research consortium. (2020-24)
Member of the Core Writing Team (CWT) of IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report that was released in March 2023. (2020-23).
Core Team member of GCOM-Resilience Shift-IIHS-led Summary for Urban Policymakers series of reports on the What the Latest Physical Science, the Latest Science on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability and the Latest Science on Climate Change Mitigation means for Cities and Urban Areas. (2022)
Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of Chapter 18 on Climate Resilient Development Pathways (CRDP) of the IPCC Assessment Report 6 (AR6). (2019-22)
Member, GCOM-Climate-KIC, Policy Innovation Task Force. (2020-22)
Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the Scaling up Climate Finance In the Context of COVID-19: a science-based call to Financial Decision Makers. (2019-21)
Participated in the IPCC Assessment Report 6 (AR6) Scoping process to define the Working Group II (Adaptation) framing for the 2017-21 cycle; and the AR6 Synthesis Report. (2017-2021)
Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the Summary for Urban Policymakers: What the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C means for Cities? (2018)
Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of Chapter 4 on “Strengthening and implementing the global response” of the seminal 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR1.5) that was released to international scientific and media acclaim in October 2018. (2016-2018)
Project Director, the Nature Conservancy-IIHS- Keystone Foundation Coimbatore Urban Green printing planning study that would contribute to the conservation and restoration of natural infrastructure of Coimbatore, which in the biological hotspot of the Western Ghats, India and to further green printing initiatives for Indian cities (2017-18).
Project Director, SDC-IIHS CapaCities Migration, Livelihoods and Climate Resilience initiative to turn climate mitigation and adaptation induced migration into a development opportunity. (2017-2018)
Co-PI of a $7 million DFID-IDRC funded international Climate Adaptation research programme Adaptation at Scale in Arid Regions (ASSAR) that spans India and Africa. (2014-2018)
Co-PI of Future Proofing Indian Cities a £0.5 million project that undertook the first metropolitan integrated climate assessment for Bangalore and Madurai. (2013-2014)
Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the IPCC Assessment Report 5 (AR5) Chapter 8 on Urban Areas, that established the role of cities and regions in addressing climate risks. (2011-2014)
Member of the Global Advisory Group of the $ 70 million Rockefeller Foundation programme on Urban Climate Change Adaptation, that has established the first regional and city-scale climate adaptation and resilience programme, starting in Asian cities. (2008-2012)
Co-author of the World Bank funded global research study on Adapting Urban Centres to Climate Change in Low and Middle-Income Nations. (2007-2008)
Author of a review of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation agenda for Indian Cities for the World Urban Summit for the International Institute for Environment & Development, London, Columbia University and Rockefeller Foundation. (2007)

Disaster Risk Reduction

Project Director of the synthesis chapter of the Flagship Global Report on Disaster and Climate Resilient Infrastructure 2023 for the Coalition for Disaster and Climate Resilient Infrastructure and UNDP. (2022-23)
Member of the International Science Council (ISC) Working Group on the Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework. (2022)
Co-I on the GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub, led by the University of Edinburgh. (2019-20)
Project Director of a UNDRR assignment to design the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) a global partnership promote the resilience of infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks, thereby ensuring sustainable development. (2019-20)
Project Director to Government of India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on setting-up and structuring the Interim Secretariat of the multi country facility, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI). (2019)
Project Director of the XV Finance Commission study on Urban Infrastructure and Resilience. (2018-19)
Member of the Global Advisory Board for the United Nations ISDR’s Global Assessment of Risk (GAR 2009 to GAR 2022) to provide advice on the conceptualization, development and mainstreaming of Disaster Risk Reduction interventions. (2008-present)
Co-author & Regional Advisor for Asia for the UNDP/ISDR Global Assessment of Risk report (2009) that established linkages between risk and poverty and develop an operational definition for extensive and intensive risk. (2008-2009)
Team Leader of the World Bank financed Gujarat-segment of the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Programme. (2006-2008)
Team leader of the Strategic Risk Assessment of a 100-hectare Real estate development in Mumbai for Tishman Speyer India Ventures. (2006)
Team Leader of the Hazira Multiple Hazard Risk Assessment. (2005)
Team Leader of the World Bank financed Hazard Risk, Vulnerability Assessment and Preparation of Composite Risk Atlas for Gujarat. (2003-05)
Project Director for the DFID-supported $ 60 million Orissa Primary Schools Cyclone Reconstruction project strategic support and M&E consultancy (2003-07)
Member of the team that assessed the impact of Save the Children’s investment in supporting the recovery of the Integrated Child Development (ICDS) programme of the Government of India in the core damage region of the Kachchh earthquake. (2002)
Led the team that undertook the Assessment of Damage to Buildings by the Kachchh Earthquake. (2001)
Team Leader of the Assessment of Damage to Buildings and Lifeline Infrastructure in Orissa affected by the Super-Cyclonic Storm 05B-99. (1999)
Leader of the team that prepared the Chamoli Earthquake Reconstruction Plan following a devastating earthquake that affected the hill areas of Uttar Pradesh. (1999)
Undertook a path-breaking research study to identify Building, Seismic Damage, Repair and Reconstruction Options for the North-Western Himalayan Region, covering the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal. (1998-9)
Led the team that undertook the Damage Assessment of Cyclone affected areas of Kachchh and Saurashtra for the Government of India. (1998)
Led the technical team, Design of Hazard Mitigation and Cyclone Emergency Reconstruction Programme for the Government of Andhra Pradesh and the World Bank. (1997)
Member of the HIC International Fact-Finding Mission to review the Impact and Response of the Government of Japan to the Great Hanshin (Kobe) Earthquake in Japan. (1995)
Led the team that prepared the Flood Rehabilitation Action Plan following the Punjab and Haryana flood for the Government of India. (1995)
Leader of the team that prepared the Action Plan for Earthquake Affected Maharashtra. (1993)
Leader of the team that developed the Action Plan for Reconstruction in Earthquake-affected Garhwal Himalayas for the Government of India. (1991)

Development Strategy and International Cooperation

Member of the High Level Advisory Group (HLAG) on Sustainable Development to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). (2022-)
Project Director of the World Bank Identifying Locations of High-Intensity Economic Agglomeration in Odisha. (2014-2015)
Lead Author of UNESCO-UNDP Creative Economy Report 2013 chapter on India. (2012-2013)
Led the IIHS team that developed the UNDP India Urban Poverty Strategy (2013-2017) UNDP’s new country programme sought to shift focus from interventions in rural to urban areas, responding to the tremendous opportunity for change in cities. (2012)
Led the team facilitating the ADB Long-Term Strategic Framework (2007-2012) consultations with representatives of the governments of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and private sector and CSO sector representatives from these countries. (2007)
Member of the team facilitating the national and sector consultations for the development of ADB’s India National Partnership Strategy (2007-2012) for the finance, energy, water, agriculture and rural development and urban development sectors (2007)
Led the team that assisted in the development of the SNV Regional Development strategy for Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. (2007)
Team member of the External Review of the DFID India Country Strategy (CSP 1999-2003). (2003)
Team inputs to UNDP-DFID commissioned Vision for the Future of Technical Assistance in the International Development System. (2003)
Leader of the team that plotted out an alternative development and donor engagement strategy for the Government of Nagaland. (2002)
Member of the team that developed the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) country strategy for India in water and natural resource (2002)
Team leader of AusAID’s India Strategic planning process. (2001-02)
Member of the team that designed the India–Australia Training and Capacity Building Facility. (2001)
Team member assisting in the Development of State strategies for the Water and Environmental sanitation sector for DFID. (2000)
Prepared a Status Report on Shelter in India for IDRC to assist in structuring their programme priorities in the country. (1987)

Social Transformation

Project Director of the £ 20 million DFID-funded International INGO Partnership Agreement Programme (IPAP) to enable Indian Civil Society to address questions of social inclusion and transformation in India. (2007-2009)
Team member for the external review of the DFID Poorest Areas Civil Society Project (PACS) which sought to strengthen civil society organisations (CSOs) working for the poor in India’s hundred poorest districts. (2006)

Governance, Public Policy and Sector Reform

Project Director of the Omidyar Network supported Centre for Land Governance, at IIHS School for Governance. (2017-2019)
Project Director of the Omidyar Network supported Urban Land Records Management and e-Governance support initiative. (2013-2015)
Team Leader of the Rockefeller Foundation-IIHS Urban India Policy Support Partnership. (2012-2014)
Team Leader of the study of Pro-Poor Growth in India and Orissa. (2006-2007)
Team Leader, Design of the Andhra Pradesh Governance Reform Programme II. (2005)
Team Leader of the review of the Government of India’s Centrally Sponsored Schemes for DFID India and the Planning Commission. (2004-05 and 2007).
Team leader of the External Review of DFID India’s Governance Strategy. (2004)
Team leader of a study on Laws Governing Ownership and Property Rights for the Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India. (1995)
Team Leader for a series of TARU research studies on the Sources and Uses of External Development Assistance. (1992-2007)
Served as a member of various high-level committees of the Government of India (GoI) including the Planning Commission Working Group on Housing & Urban Development, Standing Committee on Housing Finance and the Task Force on Rural Housing. Closely associated with the drafting of the National Housing Policy (1992), the division of sectoral jurisdiction between the Ministries of Rural and Urban Development. (1989-96)

Rural Development

Member of the Planning Commission XI Planning Working Group on Rural Housing for the 2007-2012 period. (2006-2008)
Member of the team undertaking the design of the Satluj Watershed Sustainable Rural Livelihoods programme. (2001)
Member of the review team for the Sector Reforms Programme (SRP) of the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India, for WSP-South Asia. (2001)
Team leader for the National Action Plan for Rural Housing for India. (1994-2005)
Team leader for a consultancy assignment to define the Employment Potential and Priorities for the Promotion and Financing of Tile, Brick and Stone Production for the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and the National Housing Bank (NHB). (1994)
Team leader for the Technology Action Plan for Rural Housing. (1992)

Technology Development and Design

Planning and Design of the IIHS Campus (2010-present)
Team leader for the Development of a Design and Technology Package for Cost-Effective Housing in the four states of Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. (1994-97)
Team leader for the field-testing and development of a new high-energy efficiency Ultraviolet (UV) based community water treatment system developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL). (1994-95)
Involved in the Drafting and Development of Technical Standards for Building materials, systems and disaster resistant design for the Bureau of Indian Standards. (1988-2000)
Leader of the R&D team that developed the TARA micro-concrete roof tile production system. (1987-90)
Leader of the R&D team that developed Biomass based roofing sheets for cost-effective housing. (1987-90)
Leader of the R&D team that developed a manual Clay extruder to produce tiles, pipes and extruded sections to increase the productivity and product range of traditional potters in rural India. (1986-88)
Undertook the Development, Optimization and Market Dissemination of Innovative and Cost-Effective Building Systems. (1984-90)
Responsible for the Design and execution of over 300 houses and institutional buildings including the internationally acknowledged Development Alternatives headquarters in New Delhi. (1984-90)
Member of the team that developed the Balram soil blockmaking machine. (1984-86)

Education

Member of the Steering Committee of the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities, an international association of institutions which aims to foster greater civic engagement of higher education institutions, that brings together over 430 universities from across 86 countries. (2024-26)
Assisted in addressing the opportunities created by education for climate action and sustainable cities as part of the GRCF Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF). (2019-23)
Series Editor of the three-volume India School Education Atlas. (2021-23)
Member of the international Programme Advisory Group of the Happy Digital Cities programme of the United in Diversity Creative Campus (UIDCC) in Bali, Indonesia. (2020)
Series Editor of the three-volume IIHS India Higher Education Atlas. (2019)
Led the development of the IIHS Institution of Eminence (IoE) proposal to the Govt. of India.
Member of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Committee to develop a Roadmap for the establishment of Universities for Research and Innovation. (2013-14)
Member of the Planning Commission, Narayanamurthy Committee on Corporate Sector participation in Higher Education. (2011-12)
Lead the IIHS Masters of Urban Practice (MUP): Curriculum Framework (2010-13)
Member of the Planning Commission XII Plan Steering Committee on Higher Education. (2010-11)
Team Leader, Roadmap for Higher Education Sector reform for the Government of India. (2010)

Health Systems

Commissioner, Lancet Pathfinder Commission that will identify and communicate global, regional and local pathways to a healthy, low carbon future. (2020-23)
Member of the International Advisory Board, of the Oxford Commission on Creating Healthy Cities. (2020-22)
Member, Lancet COVID-19 Commission, Task Force on Global Health Diplomacy and Cooperation. (2020-21)
At the request of the Govt. of India, released two key COVID-19 Advisories to Indian state governments, district and municipal administration across over 30 States and Union Territories and over 650 districts and municipalities. These include: Twenty essential things to consider during a Lockdown and during a health emergency and How to Decide on Where & When to lift a Lockdown? (2020)
Member of a team undertaking a research consultancy on the Structure and Dynamics of the private Health sector in Madhya Pradesh for DFID. (2001-2)
Member of the team that undertook a Review of the Immunization System in Andhra Pradesh. (2000)
Team Leader for the Environmental Health Services Indicators for Lucknow project for the London School of Health & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). (1998)
Team leader of a global research review by UNEP that examined the linkage between policy, programmes and scientific research on the Impact of Housing and the Domestic Built Environment on the Health of Women and Children. (1998)

Economics and Finance

Commissioner of the Global Commission on the Urban SDG Finance. (2023-24)
Commissioner and Lead Expert of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. (2022-24)
Academic anchor for a MOOC on the The Art and Science of Economic Policy. (2022)
Lead author of India Municipal Finance (2022). (2022)
Team Leader of a special IIHS report for India’s XV Finance Commission on The Potential of Urbanisation to Accelerate Post-COVID Economic Recovery. (2020)
Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the Summary for Financial Decision Makers Acting on Climate Change: a science-based call to Financial Decision Makers. (2019-20)
Project Director of the XV Finance Commission study on Urban Infrastructure and Resilience. (2018-19)
Member of the K C Sivaramakrishnan Committee of the Govt. of India, responsible for the identification of options for a new state capital for the successor state of Andhra Pradesh.
Team Leader of the review of the Government of India’s Centrally Sponsored Schemes for DFID India and the Planning Commission. A second review of these transfers to DFID, helped update the earlier study and recommend direction for DFID’s Country Assistance Plan over the 2008-2015 period. (2004-5) and (2007).
Team Leader of the Review of the World Bank financed Mumbai Slum Sanitation Project (SSP). (2005)

Infrastructure and Services

Commissioner and Lead Expert of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. (2022-24)
Co-author of the synthesis chapter of the report on Global Infrastructure Resilience 2023, for CDRI and UNDP. (2022-23)
Member of the Indian Planning Commission XII Plan Working Group on Industrial and Urban Water Supply and Sanitation. (2010-11)
Member of the Indian Planning Commission XII Plan Steering Committee on the Construction Sector. (2010-11)
Project Director of the WSP Review of Sanitation and Sewerage interventions in Urban India. (2007-8)
Team Leader of the Review of the World Bank financed Mumbai Slum Sanitation Project (SSP). (2005)
Member of the advisory team to the Government of Madhya Pradesh on power sector reforms. (2002-5)
Member of the consultancy support programme for the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Power Task Force (APATF). (2002-03)
Team Leader for the India Infrastructure Gateway (IIG) linked to the Global Development Gateway initiative of the World Bank. (2001-02)
Co-Team Leader for the Socio-Economic Assessment of the Andhra Pradesh Power Sector Reforms. (1999-2000)
Team Leader for Socio-Economic Assessment of the World Bank funded Haryana Power Sector Reforms. (1998-2001)
Team Leader for the Situation analysis and team member for the Design of the Bangalore Urban Environmental Services Masterplan project. (1999-2000)
Team Leader for the Situation analysis, Pre-design studies and Design team member of the AusAID-assisted Gangtok Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Masterplan Project. (1999-2000)
Team Leader for the Appraisal of Urban Environmental Services Situation in Shillong on behalf of AusAID. (1999)
Team Leader for the Situation Analysis and Pre-feasibility study of Urban Environmental Services in Shimla for AusAID. (1999)
Team leader of the Policy & Regulatory Environment Review of the Indian Energy and Power Sector for Allied Signal/Thermax. (1998)
Team Leader for the Environmental Services Indicators for Lucknow project for the London School of Health & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). (1998)
Co-Team Leader for the design of the Programme for Delivery of Environmental Services to the Urban Poor in Lucknow. (1998)
Team Member of the USAID supported Performance Monitoring System for Urban Environmental Services project. (1996)
Co-Team Leader of a multi-disciplinary consultancy team that undertook the Preparation of the Urban Environmental Services Master Plan for Lucknow 1996–2021 for DFID. (1995- 98)
Team Leader for Evaluation of the Solid Waste, Sanitation and Water Supply Arrangements and Infrastructure Deficiency Analysis for Lucknow for DFID. (1995-98)
Team leader for the design of an Integrated Energy Settlement for Madras Refineries Limited. (1987)

Books

Mangrulkar, A., Archita S, Abraham, E. S., Sagar, P., Revi, A., Prakash, S. & Mehrotra, S. [Ed] (2024) Flowing towards sustainability: Innovations in campus water management, Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Mangrulkar, A,, Bakhale, G., Krishnaswamy, J., Deshpande, K., Kulkarni, M., Khare, N. K. Jambhekar, R., Satish, R., Atri S. R. Revi, A., Prakash, S. & Mehrotra, S. [Ed] (2024) Natural history of IIHS campus: A future of urban biodiversity Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Srinivasan, M., Ghoge, K., Haldar, S., Bazaz, A., & Revi, A. (2023). Climate finance in India 2023. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/CFI11.2023
Surie, A., Goswami, A., Arakali, A., Revi, A., John, V. et al. (2023) Towards a new urban practice: The urban fellows programme 2016-22. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Revi, A., Srinivasan, M., Bazaz, A., Dubey, M., & Safdar, M. F. (2022). Indian Municipal Finance 2022. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. ISBN: 978-8195648542
Revi, A., Sen, G., Suresh, Y., Kuruvilla, R., & Bazaz, A. (2019) Localising SDGs for India 2019: Tracking the Changing Urban Context. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/sdgsindia_2019
Malladi, T., Mayavel, D., Chatterji, N., & Tripathy, P. (2018). In Revi, A. (Ed.), India Higher Education Atlas (6 volumes). Bengaluru, Karnataka: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Jain. G., Revi, A., Koduganti, J., & Abbas, A. (2018) Localising SDGs for India. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/sdgsindia.2018
Malladi, T., Chatterji, N., & Jana, A. (2017) In Revi, A. (Ed.) India urban atlas: Mapping the growth and expansion of India’s 100 largest cities. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. ISBN-13: 978-9387315549
Bazaz, A., Jana, A., Revi, A., & Malladi T. (2016) Urban India 2016: Evidence. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. ISBN-13: 978-9387315532
Revi, A., Jana, A., Malladi, T., Anand, G., Anand, S., Bazaz, A., … Shah, S. (2015). Urban India 2015: Evidence. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. ISBN-13: 978-9387315310
Revi, A., Idicheria, C., Jain, G., Anand, G., Sudhira, H., Seddon, J., … Srinivasan, S. (2011). Urban India: Evidence 2011. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements. ISBN-13: 978-9350674307
Revi, A., & Patel, S. (Eds.). (2010). Recovering from earthquakes: Response, reconstruction and impact mitigation in India (pp.384-404). New Delhi: Routledge. ISBN-13: 978-0415562973
Revi, A., & Iyer, L. (1994). Beyond housing: Child and Community centered habitat transformation. New Delhi: Plan International.
Leckie, S., Revi, A., & Ortiz, E. (1996). Still waiting: Housing rights violations in a land of plenty: the Kobe earthquake and beyond. México: HIC.
Prakash, S., Sodha, M. S., Revi, A., Sawhney, R. I, Goyal, I. C. & Goyal, A. (1991). Solar architecture and earth construction in the northwest Himalaya. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-0706949339
Revi, A. (1990). Shelter in India. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-0706949377

Chapters in Books & Peer Reviewed Articles

Revi, A., & Ghoge, K. (2024). The future of climate-resilient development is local. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1635–1637. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01968-8
Creutzig, F., Becker, S., Berrill, P., Bongs, C., Bussler, A., Cave, B., … & Zekar, A. (2024). Towards a public policy of cities and human settlements in the 21st century. npj Urban Sustainability, 4(1), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-024-00168-7
Stevens, B., Adami, S., Ali, T., Anzt, H., Aslan, Z., Attinger, S., Bäck, J., Baehr, J., Bauer, P., Bernier, N., Bishop, B., Bockelmann, H., Bony, S., Brasseur, G., Bresch, D. N., Breyer, S., Brunet, G., Buttigieg, P. L., Cao, J., … Ziemen, F. (2024). Earth Virtualization Engines (EVE). Earth System Science Data, 16(4), 2113–2122. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2113-2024
Lee, H., Calvin, K., Dasgupta, D., Krinner, G., Mukherji, A., Thorne, P., Trisos, C., Romero, J., Aldunce, P., Barrett, K., Blanco, G., Cheung, W. W. L., Connors, S. L., Denton, F., Diongue-Niang, A., Dodman, D., Garschagen, M., Geden, O., Hayward, B., … Zommers, Z. (2023). Climate change 2023: Summary for policymakers. In H. Lee & J. Romero (Eds.), Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report: Summary for Policymakers. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp. 1-34). IPCC. https://doi.org/10.59327/IPCC/AR6-9789291691647.001
Whitmee, S., Green, R., Belesova, K., Hassan, S., Cuevas, S., Murage, P., Picetti, R., Clercq-Roques, R., Murray, K., Falconer, J., Anton, B., Reynolds, T., Sharma Waddington, H., Hughes, R. C., Spadaro, J., Aguilar Jaber, A., Saheb, Y., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Cortés-Puch, M., … Haines, A. (2023). Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: Report of the lancet pathfinder commission. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02466-2
Maskrey, A., Desai, B., Jain, G., Marulanda, M., Revi, A., Bazaz, A., Bennett, K., Furniss, M., Weinhold, M., Chowhan, B. S., Hedao, P., Canfield, C., Foster, P., Wouterse, F., Goedhart, Y., Tucaltan, G., Melo Leon, S. F., Dickinson, C., Vickers, B., … Chow, N. (2023). Global infrastructure resilience: Capturing the resilience dividend. Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI). https://www.undp.org/india/publications/global-infrastructure-resilience-capturing-resilience-dividend
Lobo, J., Aggarwal, R. M., Alberti, M., Allen-Dumas, M., Bettencourt, L. M. A., Boone, C., Brelsford, C., Broto, V. C., Eakin, H., Bagchi-Sen, S., Meerow, S., D’Cruz, C., Revi, A., Roberts, D. C., Smith, M. E., York, A., Lin, T., Bai, X., Solecki, W., … Gauthier, N. (2023). Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: Opportunities to advance climate action. Npj Urban Sustainability, 3(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00113-0
Revi, A. (2023). The interconnection with climate crisis and inequality in the future of urbanization. Oxford Development Studies, 51(1), 6–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2023.2176863
Lee, H., Calvin, K., Dasgupta, D., Gerhard, K., Mukherji, A., Throne, P., Trios, C., Romero, J., Aldunce, P., Barrett, Ko., Blanco, G., Cheung, W. W. L., Connors, S. L., Denton, F., Diongue-Niang, A., Dodman, D., Garschagen, M., Aromar, R., Singh, C., … Zhai, P. (2023). Climate change 2023: Synthesis report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Cambridge University Press.
Lee, H., Calvin, K., Dasgupta, D., Gerhard, K., Mukherji, A., Throne, P., Trios, C., Romero, J., Aldunce, P., Barrett, Ko., Blanco, G., Cheung, W. W. L., Connors, S. L., Denton, F., Diongue-Niang, A., Dodman, D., Garschagen, M., Aromar, R., Singh, C., … Zhai, P. (2023). Climate change 2023: Synthesis report of the IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6): Summary for Policymakers. Cambridge University Press.
Lee, H., Calvin, K., Dasgupta, D., Gerhard, K., Mukherji, A., Throne, P., Trios, C., Romero, J., Aldunce, P., Barrett, Ko., Blanco, G., Cheung, W. W. L., Connors, S. L., Denton, F., Diongue-Niang, A., Dodman, D., Garschagen, M., Aromar, R., Singh, C., … Zhai, P. (2023). Climate change 2023: Synthesis report of the IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6): Longer report. Cambridge University Press.
Bazaz, A., Arakali, A., Revi, A., Bhan, G., Gulabani, H., Balakrishnan, K., Kapoor, N., Sami, N., Bhor, N., Pattela, O. N., Beleyur, P. R., Anand, S., Mitra, S., Bhatikar, T., John, V., Duque, J. C., Keith, M., Parnell, S., Tucker, A., & Govil, S. (2023). Maximising the benefits of India’s urban transformation: Local evidence synthesis report. PEAK Urban. https://www.peak-urban.org/India-Synthesis-Report
Grafton, Q., Gupta, J., Revi, A., Mazzucato, M., Okonjo-Iewala, N., Rockström, J., Shanmugaratnam, T., Aki-Sawyerr, Y., Bárcena Ibarra, A., Cantrell, L., Espinosa, M. F., Ghosh, A., Ishii, N., Jintiach, J. C., Qui, B., Ramphele, M., Urrego, M. R., Serageldin, I., Damania, R., … Réalé, I. (2023). The what, why and how of the world water crisis: Global Commission on the Economics of Water phase 1 review and findings. https://doi.org/10.25911/GC7J-QM22
Espey, J., Parnell, S. & Revi, A. (2023). The transformative potential of a global urban agenda and its lessons in a time of crisis. npj urban sustainability, 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00087-z
Quentin Grafton, R., Biswas, A. K., Bosch, H., Fanaian, S., Gupta, J., Revi, A., Sami, N., & Tortajada, C. (2023). Goals, progress and priorities from Mar del Plata in 1977 to New York in 2023. Nature Water. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00041-4
Gallardo, L., Hamdi, R., Islam, A. K. M. S., Klaus, I., Klimont, Z., Krishnaswamy, J., Pinto, I., Otto, F., Raghavan, K., Revi, A., Sörensson, A. A., & Szopa, S. (2022). What the latest physical science of climate change means for cities and urban areas. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV108.2022
Adelekan, I., Cartwright, A., Chow, W., Colenbrander, S., Dawson, R., Garschagen, M., Haasnoot, M., Hashizume, M., Klaus, I., Krishnaswamy, J., Lemos, M. F., Ley, D., McPhearson, T., Pelling, M., Kodira, P. P., Revi, A., Sara, L. M., Simpson, N. P., Singh, C., … Trisos, C. (2022). What the latest science on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability means for cities and urban areas. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV209.2022
Babiker, M., Bazaz, A., Bertoldi, P., Creutzig, F., De Coninck, H., De Kleijne, K., Dhakal, S., Haldar, S., Jiang, K., Kılkış, Ş., Klaus, I., Krishnaswamy, J., Lwasa, S., Niamir, L., Pathak, M., Pereira, J. P., Revi, A., Roy, J., Seto, K. C., … Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2022). What the latest science on climate change mitigation means for cities and urban areas. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV310.2022
Klaus, I., Eichel, A., Roberts, D., Schultz, S., & Revi, A. (2022). Shared science, shared future – SUP action agenda. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV411.2022
Revi, A., Roberts, D., Klaus, I., Bazaz, A., Krishnaswamy, J., Singh, C., Eichel, A., Kodira, P. P., Seth, S., Adelekan, I., Babiker, M., Bertoldi, P., Cartwright, A., Chow, W., Colenbrander, S., Creutzig, F., Dawson, R., De Coninck, H., De Kleijne, K., … Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2022). The summary for urban policymakers of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV511.2022
Keith, M., Birch, E., Buchoud, N. J. A., Cardama, M., Cobbett, W., Cohen, M., Elmqvist, T., Espey, J., Hajer, M., Hartmann, G., Matsumoto, T., Parnell, S., Revi, A., Roberts, D. C., Saiz, E., Schwanen, T., Seto, K. C., Tuts, R., & van der Pütten, M. (2022). A new urban narrative for sustainable development. Nature Sustainability, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00979-5
Huxley, R., Walsh, B., Oke, C., Bellinson, R., Bulkeley, H., Ceneviva, L. L. V., Correa, L. B., Cox, S., Giles-Corti, B., Galik, G., Gouldson, A., Karuri-Sebina, G., Mazzucato, M., Miller, D., Revi, A., Rode, P., Rosenzweig, C., Singh, C., Sitcov, I., … Zarrilli, D. (2022). A research agenda for transformative urban climate action. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, 1(1), 13–31. https://doi.org/10.3138/jccpe-2022.1.1.0003
Revi, A. (2022, October 12). A warmer world: are we ready?. SDG Action. https://sdg-action.org/a-warmer-world-are-we-ready%EF%BF%BC/?utm
Walsh, B., Greenwalt, J., Oke, C., Hadfield, P., Dickey, A., Craig, M., North, M., Hunter, N., Okem, A., Bland, S., Verbeeck, J., Barth, B., Deacon, A., Roberts, H., Randhawa, J., Joshi, S., Silva, D. C., Lootens, M., Adler, M., … Revi, A. (2022). Findings from innovate4Cities 2021 and update to the global research and action agenda. Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) and UN-Habitat. https://unhabitat.org/findings-from-innovate4cities-2021-and-update-to-the-global-research-and-action-agenda
Pörtner, H.-O., Roberts, D. C., Adams, H., Adler, C., Aldunce, P., Ali, E., Begum, R. A., Betts, R., Kerr, R. B., Biesbroek, R., Birkmann, J., Bowen, K., Castellanos, E., Cissé, G., Constable, A., Cramer, W., Dodman, D., Revi, A., Singh, C., … Stevens, N. (2022). Summary for policy makers. In Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, contribution of working group II to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press.
Portner, H-O., Roberts, D. C., Adams, H., Adelekan, I., Adler, C., Adrian, R., Aldunce, P., Ali, E., Begum, R. A., Bednar-Friedl, B., Kerr, R. B., Biesbroek, R., Birkmann, J., Bowen, K., Caretta, M. A., Carnicer, J., Castellanos, E., Revi, A., … Singh, C. (2022). Technical summary. In Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, contribution of working group II to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press.
Pörtner, H. O., Roberts, D. C., Adams, H., Adler, C., Aldunce, P., Ali, E., Ara Begum, R., Betts, R., Bezner Kerr, R., Biesbroek, R., Birkmann, J., Bowen, K., Castellanos, E., Cissé, G., Constable, A., Cramer, W., Dodman, D., Eriksen, S. H., Revi, A., Singh, C., … Zaiton Ibrahim, Z. (2022). Climate change 2022: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. IPCC. https://edepot.wur.nl/565644
Sachipper, E. L. F., Revi, A., Preston, B. L., Carr, E. R., Eriksen, S. H., Fernandez-Carril, L. R., Glavovic, B., Hilmi, N. J. M., Ley, D., Mukerji, R., de Araujo, M. S. M., Perez, R., Rose, S. K., Singh, P. K., Aldunce, P., Bahadur, A., de Carvalho, N. B., Basu, R., Brown, D. A., … Mo, Yu. (2022). Climate resilient development pathways. In Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, contribution of working group II to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press.
Lobo J., Alberti, M., Allen-Dumas, M., Bettencourt, L. M. A., Beukes, A., Tapia, L. A. B., Chen, W-Q., Dodge, A., Neal, Z., Perreira, A., Pfeiffer, D., Revi, A., Roberts, D., Rozenblat, C., Shutters, S., Smith, M. E., Stokes, E., Strumsky, D., & Wu, J. (2021). A convergence research perspective on graduate education for sustainable urban systems science. npj urban sustainability, Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00044-8
Espinosa, M. F., Pate, M., Xue, L., Casas-Zamora, K., Chen, S., Barron, G. C, Dall, E., Dhatt, R., Drobac, P., Galvão, L. A., Johns, P., Kinley, R., Lafer, C., Lipkin, W. Ian., Pannenborg, Ok., Phumaphi, J., Reis, R., Revi, A., Saini, A., … Joshi, N. (2021). Global diplomacy and cooperation in pandemic times: Lessons and recommendations from COVID-19. The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Global Health Diplomacy. https://www.zsi.at/en/object/publication/6155
Hourcade, J.C., Glemarec, Y., de Coninck, H., Bayat-Renoux, F., Ramakrishna, K., & Revi, A. (2021). Scaling up climate finance in the context of Covid-19: A science-based call for financial decision-makers (GCF working paper). South Korea: Green Climate Fund.
Batra, P., Revi, A., Bazaz, A., Singh, C., & Poonacha, P. (2021). Transforming education for sustainable futures: India background paper (TESF Working Paper). TESF and IIHS.
Revi, A., Srinivasan, M., Bazaz, A., & Safdar, M. F. (2021). Indian municipal finance. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/IMF02.2022
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2021). GAR special report on drought 2021. Geneva.
Revi, A., Ray, M., Mitra, S., Anand, S., Sami, N., & Malladi, T. (2020). Report to the XV finance commission on the potential of urbanisation to accelerate Post-COVID economic recovery. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Singh, C., Bazaz, A., Ley, D., Ford, J., & Revi, A. (2020). Assessing the feasibility of climate change adaptation options in the water sector: Examples from rural and urban landscapes. Water Security, 11, 100071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2020.100071
Revi, A., Anguelovski, I., Leal Filho, W., Olazabal, M., Chu, E., Cooper, J. T., … & Nelson, D. R. (2020). Transformative adaptation in cities. One Earth, 3(4), 384-387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.10.002
Singh, C., Ford, J., Ley, D., Bazaz, A., & Revi, A. (2020). Assessing the feasibility of adaptation options: methodological advancements and directions for climate adaptation research and practice. Climatic Change, 162(2), 255-277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02762-x
Keith, M., O’Clery, N., Parnell, S., & Revi, A. (2020). The future of the future city? The new urban sciences and a PEAK Urban interdisciplinary disposition. Cities, 105, 102820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102820
Mechler, R., Singh, C., Ebi, K., Djalante, R., Thomas, A., James, R., Tschakert, P., Wewerinke-Singh, M., Schinko, T., Ley, D., Nalau, J., Bouwer, L. M., Huggel, C., Huq, S., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Surminski, S., Pinho, P., Jones, R., Boyd, E., & Revi, A. (2020). Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: Recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00807-9
Gowtham, R., Geethalakshmi, V., Bhuvaneshwari, K., Senthil, A., Dhasarathan, M., Revi, A., & Bazaz, A. (2020). Impact of global warming (1.5ºC) on the productivity of selected C3 and C4 crops across Tamil Nadu. Journal of Agrometeorology, 22(1), 7-17. https://doi.org/10.54386/jam.v22i1.115
Lobo, J., Alberti, M., Allen-Dumas, M., Arcaute, E., Barthelemy, M., Tapia, L. A. B. … Youn., H. (2020). Urban science: Integrated theory from the first cities to sustainable metropolises (pp-1-37). Alexandria, Virginia: National Science Foundation.
Ramarao, M. V. S., Sanjay, J., Krishnan, R., Mujumdar, M., Bazaz, A., & Revi, A. (2019). On observed aridity changes over the semiarid regions of India in a warming climate. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 136(1-2), 693-702.
Revi, A., Sen, G., Suresh, Y., Kuruvilla, R., & Bazaz, A. (2019). Localising SDGs for India 2019: Tracking the changing urban context. Bengaluru, Karnataka: Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Acuto, M., Seto, K., Parnell, S., Contestabile, M., Allen, A., Attia, S., … Zhu, Y. (2018). Science and the future of Cities: Report on the global state of the urban science-policy interface. Nature Sustainability, 1(12), 721. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0209-7
Bazaz, A., Bertoldi, P., Buckeridge, M., Cartwright, A., de Coninck, H., Engelbrecht, F., … Waisman, H. (2018). Summary for urban policymakers: What the IPCC special report on 1.5C means for cities. New York, NY: Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy/C40 Cities. https://doi.org/10.24943/SCPM.2018
Espey, J., & Revi, A. (2018). Translating global vision into local reality: Building the right knowledge and policy infrastructure to support local sustainable development. Buenos, Aires: U20.
Rudd, A., Simon, D., Cardama, M., Birch, E. L., & Revi, A. (2018). The UN, the Urban Sustainable Development Goal, and the New Urban Agenda. In T. Elmqvist, X. Bai, N. Frantzeskaki, C. Griffith, D. Maddox, T. McPhearson, S. Parnell, P. Romero-Lankao, D. Simon & Mark Watkins (Eds.), The urban planet: Knowledge towards sustainable cities (pp.180-196). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316647554.011
Revi, A. (2018). Dynamics of housing in India: Trends and policy perspectives. In R. Mehrotra & K. Mehta (Eds.), Housing in India: Aspirations, imaginaries and realities (p. 162-163). Mumbai: UDRI/Architecture Foundation.
Allen, M., Babiker, M., Chen, Y., de Conick, H., Connors, S., Diemen, R.,… Zickfeld, K. (2018). Summary for policy makers. In Global warming of 1.5°C: an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change. Geneva, Switzerland: WMO/UNEP.
Allen, M. R., de Coninck, H., Dube, O. P., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Jacob, D., Jiang, K., … Zougmoré, R. B. (2018). Technical summary: Global warming of 1.5°C. In Global warming of 1.5°C: an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change. . Geneva, Switzerland: WMO/UNEP.
de Coninck, H., Revi, A., Babiker, M., Bertoldi, P., Buckeridge, M., Cartwright, A., Dong, W., … Wollenberg, L. (2018). Strengthening and implementing the global response. In Global warming of 1.5°C: an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change. Geneva, Switzerland: WMO/UNEP.
Roy, J., Tschakert, P., Waisman, H., Halim, S., Antwi-Agyei, P., Dasgupta, P., … Wewerinke-Singh, M. (2018). Sustainable development, poverty eradication and reducing inequalities. In Global Warming of 1.5 C an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change. Geneva, Switzerland: WMO/UNEP.
Revi, A. (2017). Re-imagining the United Nations’ Response to a Twenty-first-century Urban World. Urbanisation, 2(2), ix-xv. https://doi.org/10.1177/2455747117740438
Revi, A. (2016). Afterwards: Habitat III and the Sustainable Development Goals. Urbanisation, 1(2), 10-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/2455747116682899
Bhan, G., Goswami, A., & Revi, A. (2017). The intent to reside: Residence in the auto-constructed city. In V. Watson, G. Bhan & S. Srinivas (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South (pp. 255-263). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781317392842-21
McPhearson, T., Parnell, S., Simon, D., Gaffney, O., Elmqvist, T., Bai, X., …. Revi, A. (2016). Scientists must have a say in the future of cities. Nature, 538, 165–166. https://doi.org/10.1038/538165a
Kanuri, C., Revi, A., Espey, J., & Kuhle, H. (2016). Getting started with the SDGs in cities: a guide for stakeholders (UNSDSN Report). Retrieved from http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/9.1.8.-Cities-SDG-Guide.pdf
Revi, A., Gajjar, S. P., Bazaz, A., Jain, G. & Basu, R. (2016). Bangalore, India. In S. Bartlett & D. Satterthwaite (Eds.), Cities on a finite planet: towards transformative responses to climate change (pp. 41-61). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645421
Simon, D., Arfvidsson, H., Anand, G., Bazaz, A., Fenna, G., Foster, K., …. & Nyambuga, C. (2016). Developing and testing the urban sustainable development goal’s targets and indicators–a five-city study. Environment and Urbanization, 28(1), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247815619865
Parnell, S., Siri, J.G., Elmqvist, T., Marcotullio, P., Capon, A., Revi, A., & Boufford, J. (2014). Making the sustainable development goals operational through an urban agenda: perspectives from science. The Solutions Journal, 5(2), 37-40.
Field, C. B., Barros, V. R., Satterthwaite, D., Mastrandrea, M. D. Mach, Katharine J., & Revi, A., (2014). IPCC climate change 2014: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability: summary for policymakers. In Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectorial Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp.1-32). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Field, C. B., Barros, V. R., Solecki, W., Revi, A., & al, e. (2014). IPCC climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability: technical summary. In Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectorial Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp.35-94). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Revi, A., Satterthwaite, D., Aragon-Durand, F., Corfeee-Morlot, J., Kiunsi, Robert B. R., Pelling, M.,.… Sverdlik, A. (2014). IPCC climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability: urban areas. In Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectorial Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp. 535-612). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Revi, A., Satterthwaite, D., Aragón-Durand, F., Corfee-Morlot, J., Kiunsi, R. B., Pelling, M.,…. Sverdlik, A. (2014). Towards transformative adaptation in cities: the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment. Environment and Urbanization, 26(1), 11-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247814523539
Bhan, G., Goswami, A., & Revi, A. (2014). The intent to reside: spatial illegality, inclusive planning and urban social security. In O. P. Mathur (Ed.), Inclusive Urban Planning: State of the Urban Poor Report 2013 (pp. 83-94). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0198097419
Revi, A., Goswami, A., & Anand, S. (2013). India’s cultural and creative economy: new imaginations and emerging practices. In UNESCO’s Creative Economy Report 2013: Widening Local Development Pathways (pp. 66-79). Paris: UNESCO. ISBN-13: 9789230012113
Swilling, M., Robinson, B., Marvin, S., Hodson, M., Allen, A., … Pengue, W. (2013). City-Level Decoupling: Urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme. ISBN-13: 9789280732986
Revi, A. and N. Sami (2013). Social science research and global environmental change in India and South Asia. In ISSC and UNESCO, World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments (pp. 198-206). Paris: OECD Publishing/UNESCO Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264203419-28-en
Revi, A., & Rosenzweig, C. (2013). The urban opportunity: enabling transformative and sustainable development. Report presented to the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Agenda. Paris: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Mukhopadhyay, P., & Revi, A. (2011). Climate change and urbanization in India. In N. K. Dubash (Ed.), A Handbook of Climate Change and India: Development, Politics and Governance (pp. 303-316). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 978-1138924017
Revi, A. (2010). India & China: Two countries, diverse systems: a shared future? an essay on the global significance of India and China’s increasing engagement. In A. Gurung. Growing Cities in a Shrinking World: The Challenges in India and China (pp. 1-9). New Delhi: MacMillan. ISBN-13: 978-0230329287
Wu, X., Revi, A., & Doshi, H. (2009). The comparison of China and India: national innovation system. Communications (Vol. 27, pp. 7.2). New York: India China Institute.
Mukhopadhyay, P., & Revi, A. (2009). Keeping India’s economic engine going: climate change and the urbanisation question. Economic and Political Weekly, 44(31), 59-70.
Revi, A. (2009). Climate change risk: an adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities. In Bicknell, J., Dodman, D., & Satterthwaite, D. (Eds.). Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and addressing the development challenges (pp. 311-388). London: Earthscan. ISBN-13: 978-1844077465
Mehta, A., & Revi, A. (2009). Land market and urban development challenges to improved water and sanitation provision to the slums of Mumbai. In Mumbai Reader ’08 (pp. 412-450). Mumbai: UDRI.
De la Fuente, A., Revi, A., Lopez-Calva, L. F., Serje, J., Ramirez, F., Rosales, C., …. Dercan, S. (2009). Deconstructing disaster: risk patterns and poverty trends at the local level. In Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (pp. 59–85). Geneva: United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
Revi, A. (2008). Climate change risk: an adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities. Environment and Urbanization, 20(1), 207-229. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247808089157
Revi, A. (2008). Furthering pro-poor urban climate change adaptation in low and middle income countries. Background paper prepared for the World Bank, International Institute for Environment and Development, London.
De la Fuente, A., López-Calva, L. F., & Revi, A. (2008). Assessing the relationship between natural hazards and poverty: a conceptual and methodological proposal. New York: UNDP.
Revi, A., & Singh, A. K. (2007). Cyclone and storm surge, pedestrian evacuation and emergency response in India. In N. Waldau, P. Gatterman, H. Knoflacher, M. Schreckenberg (Eds.), Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005 (pp. 119-130). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47064-9_11
Revi, A. (2007, April 30). Future histories: exploring pathways for India and China in the 21st century [PowerPoint Presentation]. Retrieved from www.ifs.du.edu/assets/documents/reviifsindiachina.ppt
Revi, A. (2007, March). World and national population and education: IFs 5.34 global and national population-education trend benchmarking. [PowerPoint Presentation]. Retrieved from http://www.slideworld.org/viewslides.aspx/IFs-5.34-Global–National-Population-Education-Trend-Benchmarking-.-ppt-2320535
Revi, A. (2007). Housing – public policy priorities. In N. Sengupta (Ed.), Economic Studies of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge. New Delhi: Academic Foundation. ISBN-13: 9788171885862
De Vries, H.J.M., Revi, A., Bhat, G., Hilderink, H., & Lucas, P. (2007). India 2050: scenarios for an uncertain future (MNP Report No. 5500330022) Netherlands: Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.
Revi, A., Prakash, S., Mehrotra, R., Bhat, G., Gupta, K., & Gore, R. (2006). Goa 2100: the transition to a sustainable urban design. Environment and Urbanization, 18(1), 51-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247806063941
Revi, A. (2006, April). Long range macro-dynamics of Indian urbanization in a globalizing world. Paper presented at the India and China in a Global Perspective. New York: India China Institute.
Revi, A. (2006). Long range strategic sustainability concerns for the groningen-friesland-drenthe region of Netherlands. In F. V. Dam & K. J. Noorman (Eds.), Grounds of change: Bridging energy planning and spatial design strategies (pp. 45-50). Groningen: KNN Milieu B.V.
Revi, A. (2005). Lessons from the deluge: Priorities for multi-hazard risk mitigation. Economic and Political Weekly, 40(36), 3911-3916.
AtKisson, A., Revi, A., Mehrotra, R., Prakash, S., & Bhat, G. K. (2005). The Goa 2100 project: A break-through project from India. In K. C. Hargroves & M. H. Smith (Eds.), The Natural Advantage of Nation: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century (pp. 306-315). London: Earthscan Publications. ISBN-13: 978-1844073405.
Mehrotra, R., Prakash, S., & Revi, A. (2003). Goa 2100 Urban Design for a Sustainable Future. Tokyo: Institute of Behavioral Sciences.
Revi, A., & Joshi, S. (2003). Healthier housing for developing countries. In H. N. B. Gopalan & S. Sumeet (Eds.), Domestic Environments and the Health of Women & Children (pp. 167-178). New Delhi: TERI. ISBN-13: 978-8185419541
Revi, A., Dronin, N. M., & Bert, D. V. (2002). Population & environment in Asia since 1600 AD. In B. D. Vries & J. Goudsblom (Eds.), Mappae mundi: Humans and their habitats in a long-term socio-ecological perspective: Myths, maps and models (pp. 301-352).4 Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN-13: 978-9053565353
Revi, A. (2002, September). India’s power sector reforms: managing the external environment. Paper presented at the CRISIL Power Sector Seminar, New Delhi.
Revi, A., & Dube, M. (1999). Indicators for urban environmental services in Lucknow-process and methods. Environment and Urbanization, 11(2), 227-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/095624789901100218
Meadows, D. H., Atkisson, A., Baysal, H., Davis, J., Revi, A.,…. Vuuren, D. V. (1998). Indicators and information systems for sustainable development. Vermont: Sustainability Institute.
Revi, A. (1997). Meitei housing in Manipur. In P. Oliver (Ed.), Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world: Cultures and habitats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521564220
Revi, A. (1997). Apatani housing in Arunachal Pradesh. In P. Oliver (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World: Cultures and Habitats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Revi, A. (1997). Monpa housing in Arunachal Pradesh. In P. Oliver (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World: Cultures and Habitats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Valmeekinathan, S., & Revi, A. (1996). Designing the Balram. New Delhi: Development Alternatives.
Revi, A., (1995). Arunachal towards a positive intervention. Architecture + Design, 12, 99-106.
Revi, A., & Batra, P. (1994). Giving children back their childhood. In L. Iyer & A. Revi (Eds.), Beyond Housing: Child and Community Centered Habitat Transformation (pp 49-70). New Delhi: Plan International Region of South Asia.
Revi, A. (1994). Human settlements processes and public policy in South Asia. In L. Iyer & A. Revi (Eds.), Beyond Housing: Child and Community Centered Habitat Transformation (pp 73-78). New Delhi: Plan International Region of South Asia.
Revi, A., (1994). Maharashtra earthquake reconstruction programme needs restructuring. The Hindu Survey of the Environment, 195-203.
Revi, A., & Kishore, K. (1994). Post-earthquake reconstruction in Marathwada. Architecture + Design, 17-27.
Arya, A. S., Revi, A., & Jain, P. (1994). Earthquakes and buildings. New Delhi: TARU & YUVA.
Revi, A., Verma, R., Sen, S., Kumar, P., Sreedhar, R., & Bhat, G. (1993). Building materials and technology promotion council: Technology action plan for rural housing 1991–2001. New Delhi: TARU for Development.
Revi, A. (1992). Development programmes and international assistance to the development sector in India. New Delhi: TARU for Development.
Revi, A. & Jain, P. (1992). Uttarkashi reconstruction. Architecture + design, 60-72.
Revi, A. (1989). Shelter a fundamental right. Architecture + Design, 87-93.
Scott, C. A., & Revi, A. (1988). Cover the earth—plaster for soil block buildings. New Delhi: Development Alternatives.
Khosla, A., Prakash, S., & Revi, A. (1986). A transcultural view of sustainable development: The landscape of design. Landscape and Urban Planning, 13, 401-410. https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-2046(86)90057-5

2024

Science, Fiction, and Narrative: Framing the Upcoming Special Report on Climate Change, Carnegie (virtual), Los Angeles, 2^ndApril 2024
Panel, Perspectives on Sustainability Transitions, Bengaluru, 27^th March 2024
ReSET Annual workshop, Bengaluru, 18-19^th March 2024
GAR 2024 Advisory Board meeting (virtual), Geneva, 15^th March 2024
Summit for the Future Workshop, SDSN-PASS, Vatican City, 4-5^th March 2024
Institution of Civil Engineers, Brunel South Asia Lecture, 27^th February 2024
CLAPs session, 23^rd February 2024
Deccan Herald, Bengaluru Sustainability panel, 17^th February 2024
INET Keynote, Pune, 16^th February 2024
TISS, CUPG Keynote, Mumbai, 5^th February 2024
CEPT, Keynote, Ahmedabad, 2^nd February 2024
GCEW Commission meeting, Zurich, 20-21^st January 2024
Seminar Helvetas, Zurich, 19^th January 2024
IIHS Urban ARC 2024, 12^th January 2023
IIHS 9^th PhD workshop Opening, 8^th January 2024

2023

Closing address, Climate and Migration Conference, Bengaluru, 20^th December 2023
GCEW Commission meeting, (virtual) Geneva, 20^th December 2023
COP 28, UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub: Climate change, biodiversity and Resilience (virtual) Dubai, 9^th December 2023
PanIIT, PIWOT 2023, Panel on Urban Transformation, Bengaluru, 9th December 2023
Global Commission on Urban SDG Financing, CoP28, Dubai (virtual) 3rd December 2023
Urban Policy Dialogues, Bengaluru, 29-30^th November 2023
UnifiCap keynote, Chennai, 26^th November 2023
HLC on Urban Planning, New Delhi, 24-25^th November 2023
Ministerial briefing for CoP28, MoEFCC (virtual), New Delhi, 22^nd November 2023
Lancet Pathfinder Commission report launch, London (virtual), 21^st November 2023
UCL, Bartlett Publics Universities’ role in tackling the Climate Emergency, London (virtual), 15th November 2023
Urban SDG Finance Commission (virtual), 7^th November 2023
World Climate Research Programme, Keynote (virtual), Kigali, 24^th October 2023
Opening Plenary Keynote – Innovate4Cities Global Marketplace, (virtual), 11^th October 2023
Opening Keynote, Urban Transitions Mission, GCOM, Riyadh (virtual), 10^th October 2023
CCSE – Climate resilience and adaptation, LEAP- RE stakeholder Forum, Kigali (virtual), 10^th October 2023
India China Institute, New Frameworks for Food security: India China and Shifting Global Orders seminar (virtual), 5^th October 2023
Launch of CDRI Biennial Report on Climate Resilient Infrastructure, New Delhi 4^th October 2023
Accelerating SDGs implementation through Risk-informed Infrastructure Investment, UN Regional Bureau for Arab States, UN HQ, 22nd September 2023
UN SDSN Leadership Council, New York, 21^st September 2023
UN-Habitat, Biodiverse and Climate Resilient Cities, UN, 22^nd September 2023
Bezoz Family Foundation, Science to Action Workshop, Roosevelt House, New York, 20^th September 2023
UN SDSN Commission on Financing Urban SDGs, New York, 18^th September 2023
Accelerating SDG Implementation through Risk-Informed Infrastructure Investment, High Level Panel, UN SDG Action weekend, 17^th September 2023
Towards a New Urban Practice seminar and book launch, DPU/UCL, London 15^th September 2023
La Maison Rousseau et Littérature, Rosseau Jury, Geneva (virtual), 30^th August- 3^rd September 2023
ReSET annual review meeting, Utrecht, 20-25^th August 2023
Opening Urban Fellows Programme 2023-24, 16th August 2023
Climate Displacement webinar (virtual), 16^th August 2023
PEAK webinar: Sustainable Urban Futures webinar (virtual), 27^th July 2023
Memorial lecture, Mumbai, 22^nd July 2023
G-20, Clean Energy Ministerial, Keynote: Mayors-Ministers dialogue on Future-proofing urban infrastructure, Goa, 20^th July 2023
ISIE Keynote, University of Leiden, 5^th July 2023
GCEW Commission meeting, Geneva, 3-4^th July 2023
Keynote EVE Summit, Berlin, 3^rd July 2023
Roundtable on a Global Social Contract for the 21^st Century, La Maison Rousseau et Littérature, Geneva (virtual), 28^th June 2023
Lessons learnt from COVID & Climate change, Herrenhausen conference, Hanover, (virtual), 21-23rd June, 2023
Dialogue on India’s State Capacity , IIHS Capacity Development Forum, 15^th June 2023
Lecture on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, FCDO, London (virtual), 12^th June 2023
IIHS UFP graduation address, 10^th June 2023
Keynote G-20 , Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group Meeting, Mumbai, 24^th May 2023
Melbourne Centre for Cities Board meeting, (virtual), Melbourne, 1^st May 2023
Keynote on Climate & Sustainability, IBM Research, Bangalore, Bangalore, 13^th April 2023
SDSN, Leadership Council, (virtual), 3^rd April 2023
Towards a New Urban Practice panel, New School, New York, 31^st March 2023
ACC Advisory Board meeting (virtual), Cape Town, 31^st March 2023
Book Launch, Departures, New School, New York, 30^th March 2023
Summary for Urban Policymakers of IPCC AR6 Panel, New School, New York, 29^th March 2023
The Economics of Water, GCEW Side Event, Major Groups, New York, 23r^d March 2023
World Bank Side Event, Economics of Groundwater, UN 2023 Water conference, New York, 22^ndMarch 2023
GCEW Side Event, Turning the Tide, UN 2023 Water conference, New York, 22^nd March 2023
GCEW G-77 briefing, New York, UN 2023 Water conference, 21^st March 2023
Water Leaders Conclave, New York, 20^th March 2023
IIHS, International Advisory Council meeting, 2^nd March 2023
UCLG Annual Retreat, Barcelona, 21-23^rd February 2023
Panel on Urban Innovation and Sustainability , Launch seminar, Urban Land Institute, Mumbai, 16^th February 2023
Rebalancing the Global Water cycle as a Global Common Good, GCEW UNGA Special Session, UN HQ, New York, 8^th February 2023
GCEW IMF briefing, Washington DC, 7^th February 2023
GCEW World Bank briefing, Washington DC, 7^th February 2023
Open-AI seminar, Ek-Step, 2^nd February 2023
IIHS Staff meeting, Kengeri campus, 30^thJanuary 2023
IPCC High Level event, Ahmedabad University, 23^rdJanuary 2023
High Level Committee on Urban Sector policies, New Delhi, 18^th January 2023
IIHS Urban ARC 2022: Beyond Binaries, Opening plenary, 12^th January 2023
GAR, Advisory Board meeting (virtual), Geneva, 9^th January 2023
IIHS 8^th PhD workshop Opening, 9^th January 2023
Water as a Global Common Good, GCEW webinar, Bangalore, 5^th January 2023

2022

Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Berlin 9-11^th December 2022
Urban Policy Dialogues 2022: Pathways towards Future-Ready Indian Cities, 29^th November 2022
Launch of the Summary for Urban Policymakers Synthesis report, CoP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, 7-12^thNovember 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, CoP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, 11^thNovember 2022
Inaugural Symposium of Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, Ithaca, 26-28^th September 2022
Second Urban RoundTable, New York, 21^st September 2022
ICSD 2022: Translational Knowledge to Shape Sustainable Urban Futures, 20th September 2022
UN SDSN , Leadership Council, New York, 19-20^th September 2022
Global Commission on the Economics of Water, London 12-16^th September 2022
Lancet Pathfinders Commission meeting (virtual), 6^th September 2022
NIAS-DST Training Programme on SDGs and Science Policy, 25^th August 2022
DRC Presidential HLAG on Sustainability, London (virtual), 25^th July 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, WGII Author meeting, London, 20^th July 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, Global consultation, London, 19^th July 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, WGIII Author meeting, London, 18^th July 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, Latin America convening, (virtual), 14-15^th July 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, Southeast and South Asia convening, (virtual), 12-13^th July 2022
UNDP, Consultation on MTR on the Sendai framework, (virtual), 12^th July 2022
Science Gallery, CARBONN Climate lecture, 8^th July 2022
OECD Workshop on Building Systemic Resilience in Cities, (virtual), 7^th July 2022
DSA Conference 2022, Opening Plenary, (virtual), 6^th July 2022
Lancet Pathfinders Commission meeting (virtual), 4^th July 2022
Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Geneva (virtual), 1^st July 2022
UNDRR Global Assessment of Risk (GAR 2023) Advisory Board, Geneva, 30^th June-1^st July 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, WGIII Author meeting (virtual), 23^rd June 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, WGII Author meeting (virtual), 21^st June 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, East Asia & Oceania convening, (virtual), 14-15^th June 2022
ReSET international workshop, (virtual), 13-17^th June 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, North America convening, (virtual), 9-10^th May 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, WGIII Author meeting (virtual), 7^th June 2022
UFP Alumni meet, 5^th June 2022
UFP Graduation, 4^th June 2022
Opening Plenary on Improved understanding and governance of systemic risk, Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022, Bali, 26^th May 2022
Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Geneva (virtual), 21-22^nd May 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, Africa convening, Kisumu (virtual), 20^th May 2022
Oxford TSU seminar Increasing Funding for Climate Change Adaptation: Implications for Transport (virtual), Oxford, 18^th May 2022
Sendai MTR-ISC Expert Committee meeting (virtual), 17^th May 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, Europe convening, Malmo (virtual), 12^th May 2022
Lancet Pathfinders Commission meeting (virtual), 10^th May 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, WGII Author meeting (virtual), 9^th May 2022
ICDRI 2022, Session on managing infrastructure interdependencies, 6^th May 2022
ICDRI 2022, Opening Plenary (virtual), 4^th May 2022
IPCC AR6 SYR CWT-3, Dublin 25-28^th April 2022
BRICS Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development (virtual), Beijing, 27^th April 2022
Global Assessment of Risk 2022 Launch (virtual), UN headquarters, New York, 26^th April 2022
Helvetas-TERI, IPCC AR6 workshop (virtual), 13^th April 2022
SDSN Leadership Council meeting (virtual), 11^th April 2022
of India/NDMA, Losses & Damages workshop, 9^th April 2022
Summary for Urban Policymakers, WGII Author meeting (virtual), 4^th April 2022
IPCC AR6 Working Group III, Approval Session (virtual), 21 March-2^nd April 2022
Roundtable C-40 Centre for Cities, (virtual) 29^th March 2022
Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI) review (virtual), 29^th March 2022
Integrating Silos: Urban Planning for Adaptation and Resilience, Seminar on Financing Urban Adaptation to Address Climate change, UPenn (virtual), Philadelphia 23^rdMarch 2022
Lancet Pathfinders Commission meeting (virtual), 15^th March 2022
Workshop on the Global Urban Agenda, Oxford, 9-11^th March 2022
IPCC AR6 Working Group II, Approval Session (virtual), 15-25^th Feb 2022
DoPT, Panel on Climate change, Disaster Risk Reduction & SDG localisation (virtual), 4^th February 2022
UCLG, Climate and Culture Townhall (virtual), 31^st January 2022
SUP WGI, First Authors meeting (virtual), 21^st January 2022
Lancet Pathfinders Commission meeting (virtual), 20^th January 2022
G-STIC conference, Moving from commitment to implementation: addressing the missing Middle (virtual), Dubai, 17^th January 2022
IIHS Urban ARC 2022: Developing an Urban curriculum for the global South, 13^th January 2022
IIHS Urban ARC 2022: Beyond Binaries, Opening plenary, 13^th January 2022
IIHS 7th PhD workshop Opening, 10^th January 2022
International Conference on Urban Health, Plenary on Urban Health Inequities, (virtual), 7^th January 2022

2021

UNISDR, GAR Advisory Board meeting, 15-16^th December 2021
UPP-Capacity Development Forum, 8^th December, 2021
SDSN-University Presidents from Asia Pacific meeting, (virtual) 1^st December, 2021
Urban Policy Dialogues 2021, 23^rd November 2021
Convocation Address, 8th Convocation, School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal, (virtual) 20^th November 2021
UCLG World Council, Barcelona, UBUNTU Advisory Board, (virtual) 18^th November 2021
COP 26: Launch of Summary for Urban Policymakers of IPCC AR6, 11^th November 2021
COP 26: Urban informality and inequality: a global call for climate justice, 2^nd November 2021
World Health Summit, Pathfinder Commission presentation, (virtual) 25^th October 2021
Lancet Global Health Diplomacy and Cooperation Task Force, (virtual) 18^th October 2021
Commission on Creating Healthy Cities, International Advisory Board, (virtual) 12^th October 2021
Innovate4Cities conference: Panel on Informality and equity: ensuring a just climate transition, 9^th October 2021
Innovate4Cities conference: Cities in a changing climate: localising climate action in urban areas, 9^th October 2021
LDC Future Forum Helsinki, Plenary Our changing world: building resilience and sustainability in LDCs, (virtual) 7^th October 2021
SDSN Leadership Council meeting, (virtual) 23-24^th September 2021
UCLG -UBUNTU Advisory Board, 17^th September 2021
Lancet Pathfinders Commission meeting, (virtual) 7^th September 2021
ACC, Curating Urban Regulation, (virtual) 3^rd September 2021
IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, Core Writing Team meeting, (virtual) 16-20^th August 2021
Lancet Global Health Diplomacy and Cooperation Task Force meeting, (virtual) 16^th August 2021
Lancet Pathfinders Commission meeting, (virtual) 7^th July 2021
ICUH 2021 Plenary: Urban health inequities, (virtual) 6^th July 2021
Plenary talk on Urban Health Inequities at the 17th International Conference on Urban Health, (virtual) 6^th July 2021
Tata Sustainability lecture, Ecosystem Restoration for prosperity and sustainability, (virtual) 25^th June 2021
Lancet Global Health Diplomacy and Cooperation Task Force meeting, (virtual) 17^th June 2021
International Conference on The Future of Transport and Land-use in the Digital City, (virtual) 7^th June 2021
UNISDR, GAR Advisory Board meeting, (virtual) 25-26^th May 2021
SDSN Leadership Council meeting, (virtual) 20^th May 2021
India China Institute, Advisory Board meeting, (virtual) 14^th April 2021
Lancet Pathfinders Commission meeting, (virtual) 15^th March 2021
IPCC AR6 WGII, Lead Author Meeting 4, 1-7^th March 2021
SDG Conference 2021 Urban Pathways to SDG success, (virtual) 12^th February 2021
IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, Core Writing Team 1, (virtual) 25-29^th January 2021
Lancet Pathfinders Commission meeting, (virtual) 19^th January 2021
UCLG Ubuntu Advisory Board meeting, (virtual) 19^th January 2021
IIHS Urban ARC 2021: New Urban Science Closing plenary, 16^th January 2021
IIHS Urban ARC 2021: Urban Imaginaries, Opening plenary, 14^th January 2021
IIHS 7th PhD workshop Opening, 11^th January 2021

2020

Solar Decathlon India 2020, Faculty workshop closing, 20^th December 2020
UCLG GOLD-VI workshop, 17^th December 2020
TNUSSP, PPE distribution launch, (virtual) 11^th December 2020
Urban Lens Film Festival, Closing remarks, 6^th December 2020
UNDRR, GAR 2022 Advisory Board, (virtual) 9-10^th December 2020
Conversation with the Director, Cyclotron: the film, (virtual) 20^th November 2020
IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report meeting, (virtual) 12^th November 2020
ICCROM keynote, Towards Integrated Management of Historic Cities, (virtual) 5^th November 2020
Keynote, Nepal Urban Dialogue 2020, (virtual) 31^st October 2020
Opening, UFP 2020-21, 27^th October 2020
UCL Beyond Boundaries: Universities & the SDGs, (virtual) 20^th October 2020
Keynote on Climate Action in a post-COVID world, ICLEI Daring Cities conference, (virtual), 7^th October 2020
SDSN Leadership Council meeting, (virtual), 24-25^th September 2020
Reimagining Growth in India’s Climate Decade, New York Climate week, (virtual) 24^th September 2020
Presentation at CII India Innovation Summit 2020, (virtual), 17^th September 2020
Presentation at Cities in the time of Corona, (virtual),10^th September 2020
Commonwealth Planners keynote, (virtual) 1^st September 2020
PEAK Urban Management Board meeting, (virtual) 1^st September 2020
ReSET Advisory Committee meeting, (virtual) 31^st August 2020
UPAGrl Advisory Committee meeting, 19^th August 2020
XV Finance Commission Urbanisation report presentation, (virtual), 5^th August 2020
Happy Digital Cities, Advisory consultation, (virtual), 13-16^th July 2020
TESF Inception Workshop, Education for Sustainable Development, (virtual), 10^th July 2020
TESF Opening convening, The SDGs and India’s development, (virtual), 30^th June 2020
UCLG Executive Committee eMeeting, (virtual), 29^th May 2020
UNDRR GAR eAdvisory Board meeting, (virtual), 26-27^th May 2020
PEAK eAdvisory Board meeting, (virtual), 26^th May 2020
SDSN eLeadership Council meeting, (virtual), 6^th May 2020
Adaptation Futures, eSeminar, (virtual), 28^th April 2020
IPCC Wk Gp III, eLAM3, (virtual), 15-20^th April 2020
CDRI Global Flagship Report review, New Delhi, 20^th February 2020
UCLG Retreat, Tangier, 26-29^th February 2020
City Scripts 2020 – Conversation with Janaki Nair, 23^rd February 2020
Seminar, GSD, Harvard University, Cambridge, 17^th February 2020
Faculty Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, 17^th February 2020
Public Lecture Yale University, New Haven, 17^th February 2020
Seminar, New School University, New York, 13^th February 2020
Seminar, World Bank, Washington DC, 11^th February 2020
Faculty Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, 10^th February 2020
PEAK Retreat, EAFIT University, Medellin, 1-8^th February 2020
ACC Advisory Board meeting, 28^th January 2020
IPCC, Working Group 2, Lead Authors meeting, Faro, 27^th January – 1^st February 2020
CDRI International Partners Consultation, New Delhi, 23^rd-24^th January 2020
KNOW Annual meeting, Bengaluru, 18^th January 2020
Urban ARC 2020 – Closing Plenary, 18^th January 2020
Urban ARC 2020 – Opening Plenary, 16^th January 2020
Urban ARC Exhibition Opening: Remarks, 15^th January 2020

2019

LBSNAA, Level IV IAS training, Mussoorie, 27 November 2019
SFDM Consultation, Nijmegen, 17 – 21 November 2019
UCLG World Congress & Advisory Board meeting, Durban, 12 – 15 November 2019
UNDRR Advisory Board, Geneva, 7 – 8 November 2019
Opening Keynote, IIHS Urban Policy Dialogues, Bengaluru, 5 – 6 November 2019
IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report Scoping meeting, Singapore, 21 – 24 October 2019
SFDM Consultation, New Delhi, 5 – 6 October 2019
IPCC Working Group III, LAM2, New Delhi, 1 – 2 October 2019
UNSDSN Leadership Council, New York, 26 – 27 September 2019
Launch of CDRI, UN Headquarters, New York, 25 September 2019
Plenary panel, 7th ICSD, 25 September 2019
SFDM Consultation, New York, 21 – 22 September 2019
ASU New Urban Science, Tempe, 19 – 20 September 2019
SFDM Consultation, London, 16 August 2019
Second Lead Author Meeting, IPCC Working Group II Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, 14 – 19 July 2019, Kathmandu, Nepal
Pritzker Forum on Global Cities, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 5 – 7 June 2019
How Must Indian Cities Adapt To Climate Change? Radio Interview at WBEZ Worldwide 91.5, Chicago, 5 June 2019
Closing Panel on Cities and Disaster Risk Reduction, Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, 17 April 2019
Roundtable on Coalition on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, 17 April 2019
Panel on the Launch of GRAF Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, 16 April 2019
Plenary Keynote Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction and Launch of GAR 2019, Geneva, 15 April 2019
Introduction to the SDGs, Ericsson India, Noida, 26 April 2019
Introduction to the SDGs, Ericsson India, Bangalore, 23 April 2019
U Penn, Philadelphia, 15 – 17 April 2019
25 Years of Democracy in South Africa, Durban, 6 – 7 April 2019
IFC- Sustainable Housing Leadership Consortium (SHLC) conference, Bangalore, 3 April 2019
Disaster Resilient Infrastructure workshop, New Delhi, 20 March 2019
KNOW Annual meeting, Havana, 25 – 28 February 2019
UCLG Ubuntu advisory Group, Barcelona, 13 – 16 February 2019
IPCC, Briefing on SR1.5C Assessment methodology, IPCC LAM1, Durban, 24 January 2019
IPCC seminar, University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, 21 January 2019
IAS Probationers, Bharat Darshan, Bangalore, 16 January 2019
Urban Lens 2018 – The City and the Creative Economy 24 January 2019
Urban ARC 2019 – Closing Panel, New Urban Science, 12 January 2019
Urban ARC chairing invited panel on ‘Geographies of Technology”, Bangalore 11 January 2019
Urban ARC 2019 – Introduction with Panel: Governing the Urban, 10 January 2019
Opening Doctoral Workshop, Bangalore 7 January 2019

2018

National Consultation on Climate adaptation, Bangalore, 11 December 2018
International Conference on Urban Health, Kampala, 28 – 30 November 2018
Greenbuild Plenary, Mumbai, 16 November 2018
UPD Opening, Bangalore, 14 November 2018
Finance Commission presentation, New Delhi 12 – 13 November 2018
SUPM convening, Copenhagen, 6 – 7November 2018
Opening Plenary U-20, Buenos Aires, 28 – 31 October 2018
IPCC, SR1.5C convening, Marrakesh, 25 – 27October 2018
WWF Climate convening, Seoul, 8 October 2018
IPCC Plenary, Incheon, 27 September – 7 October 2018
SDSN LC, New York, 23 – 26 September 2018
SUPM convening, New York, 5 – 6 September 2018
SUPM convening, Brussels, 20 – 21 August 2018
Climate Keynote, Radboud University, 17 August 2018
Finance Commission presentation, New Delhi 8 August 2018
Mint Climate consultation, Bangalore 26^th July 2018
OECD Climate consultation, BSE Mumbai 5^th July 2018
Adaptation Futures Closing Plenary, Cape Town 21^st June 2018
ASSAR meeting, Cape Town, 15-17^th June 2018
Mahesh Buch Memorial lecture, Bhopal, 6^th June 2018
IPCC Lead Author Meeting, Paris 24-25^th May 2018
SDSN Leadership Council meeting, Stockholm 15-16^th May 2018
CARIAA convening, New Delhi 4^th May 2018
GCRF Roundtable on Cities & Sustainable Infrastructure, New Delhi 27^th April 2018
IPCC Lead Author Meeting, Gabarone, 8-14^th April 2018
GAR Advisory Board, Geneva, 20-21^st March 2018
State of Housing Conference, Mumbai 16^th March 2018
Edmonton Cities IPCC Plenary & session, 1^st March 2018
KNOW meeting, London, 26 Feb – 1 March 2018
Plenary presentation 361 Conference, Mumbai, 17 Feb 2018
CityScripts, Academic writing panel, Bangalore, 16 Feb 2018
ACC International Conference, Cape Town, 1-3 Feb 2018 (two sessions)
NCBS India-Africa convening, Bangalore 30 January 2018
Monash University convening, Bangalore, 24 January 2018

2017

Keynote IIHS, Urban Policy Dialogue 2017, Bangalore, India 9 November 2017
South-western Command, Indian Army, Jaipur, 1 November 2017
Lecture on Leaders in Sustainable Development, Executive Training Programme, Sunway University, Malaysia 31st October 2017
IPCC Malmo, Sweden, October 2017
IPCC Lead Authors Meeting 3, Malmo, Sweden, October 2017
European Philanthropies, Copenhagen 10 October 2017
LBSNAA, Mussoorie, 3 October 2017
SDSN Leadership Council, New York, September 2017
Lecture on New School University, New York, 21September 2007
High Level Panel, 72^nd UN General Assembly, 6 September 2017
Global Task Force, New York, September 2017
Royal Geographic Society Conference, London, September 2017
Climate Change, Morocco, Aug/Sept 2017
Central Command, Indian Army, Lucknow, 24 August 2017
UCL-Nature Panel, UCL, London 3 July 2017
EcoCities Summit, Melbourne, July 2017
Melbourne University, July 2017
Melbourne Water, July 2017
Monash University, July 2017
IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, Lead Authors Meeting 2, Exeter, 5-10^th June 2017
Session on Urban Financing, Berlin, 1^st June 2017
SDSN Leadership Council, Berlin, 30-31^st May 2017
Panel on Future opportunities for University-led capacity building, London School of Economics, London, 24th May 2017
Opening Keynote, Universities and the City, British Council, Going Global, Whitehall, London, 22^nd May 2017
IPCC AR6 Scoping Meeting, Addis Abbaba, 1-6^th May 2017
Opening Keynote at WIEGO 20^th Anniversary Retreat, Bellagio, 25^th April 2017
Southern Command, Indian Army, Pune, 17^th April 2017
Green infrastructures for more liveable cities, Boconni University, Milan 7th April 2017
Climate change, IIT Mumbai, 5^th April 2017
RoundTable on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, New Delhi, 1^st April 2017
Lecture on Climate CEPT University, 31^st March 2017
Urban Planning & Sustainable Infrastructure session, New Development Bank Annual meeting, New Delhi, 2^nd April 2017
Keynote at IIHS National consultation on Climate Change, New Delhi, 24^th March 2017
Closing Keynote at IIHS CityScripts, New Delhi 11^th March 2017
IPCC Lead Authors Meeting 1, Brazil 6^th March 2017
Keynote on Govt. of South Africa, Treasury, Johannesburg, 28^th February 2017
Eastern Command, Indian Army, Fort William, Kolkata, 21^st February 2017
Lecture on State of Housing Seminar, Mumbai, February 2017
Opening Keynote at IIHS CityScripts, February 2017
Closing Keynote on Adaptation C-40, Dubai, 26^th January 2017
Chair of Closing Panel on Pedagogy: Teaching from the South, IIHS Urban Annual Research Conference, IIHS, Bangalore 18^th January 2017
Opening Keynote, IIHS Urban Annual Research Conference, IIHS, Bangalore 18^th January 2017

2016

Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing & Urban Development, New Delhi, 15^th December 2016
Indian Institute of Architects, National Convention, Bangalore, 3^rd December 2016
COP22 & Low-Emissions Solutions Conference , Marrakesh, 13-17th November 2016
Keynote IIHS, Urban Policy Dialogue 2016, Bangalore, India 10^th November 2016
ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum 2016, New Delhi, 28^th October 2016
UCLG Plenary, Bogota, 14^th October 2016
UCLG, Bogota, 11-14^th October 2016
LBSNAA, Mussoorie, 5^th October 2016
Lima conference, Lima, 3^rd October 2016
IDRC 1.5C meeting, Oxford
UNSDSN Leadership Council, New York, 19-20^th September 2016
ASSAR, Pune, August 2016
IPCC SR1.5C Scoping meeting, WMO, Geneva, 15-18^th August 2016
CARIAA, Ethiopia, July 2016
Cities Alliance Bosrd, Brussels, July 2016
Closing Keynote, Resilient Cities, Bonn, July 2016
IDS 50, States, Markets and Society Conference, Brighton, 6^th July 2016
CityNET, Seoul, June 2016
CA meeting, Berlin, June 2016
German Habitat Forum 2016, Berlin, June 2016
UNSDSN, Brussels, May 2016
Bocconi University, Milan, May 2016
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, May 2016
Melbourne City Hall, Melbourne, May 2016
Ozwater, Melbourne, May 2016
Curtin, Perth, May 2016
LBSNAA, Mussoorie, 2^nd May 2016
Tata Innovista, Mumbai, 21^st April 2016
Cities Alliance, Board meeting, Brussels, 6-7^th April 2016
DRR, TISS, Mumbai, 4^th April 2016
Workshop on Sustainable Cities?, Indian Army, IIHS, Bangalore, 9-10^th March 2016
Sustainable Financing, Bellagio, 2-5^th March 2016
Habitat III conference preparation, Sao Paolo, 28-29^th February 2016
CityScripts, Bangalore, 19^th February 2016
IDDRI conference, Paris, 2-3^rd February 2016
Keynote, ISOLA conference, Bangalore, 22^nd January 2016
SDG Campaign convening, Cities Alliance, Brussels, 12-13^th January 2016
SDSN Habitat III convening, Bonn, 14^th January 2016

2015

Brazil-EU dialogue, IIED, London, 19-20^th November 2015
UNSDSN, G-20, Istanbul, 10-12^th November 2015
LBSBAA, Phase-V, Mussoorie, 5^th November 2015
Keynote, Civil Society Convention on Sustainable Cities, Mumbai, 15^th October 2015
Habitat III, GAP Plenary, New School University, 2^nd October 2015
Lecture on SDGs, India China Institute, New School University, New York, 1^st October 2015
CASI Khemka lecture, University of Pennslvania, Philadelphia, 30^th September 2015
UNSDSN Sustainable Cities meeting, New School University, New York, 24^th September 2015
UNSDSN Leadership Council, New York, 22-24^th September 2015
IPCC AR5 outreach meeting, Bangkok, 17 August 2015
SDSN-Pontifical Academy meeting on Sustainable Cities, Vatican City, 21-22^nd July 2015
SDGs, Mistra, Gothenberg, 8-10^th June 2015
UNSDSN Leadership Council, Paris, 4-5^th May 2015
Keynote: The SDGs and their contribution to a more inclusive urban green economy, PEP20 Edinburgh, 27^th May 2015
CARIAA annual meeting, Gaborone, 17-21^st May 2015
Level 3 IAS Officers training, LBSNAA, Mussoorie, 5-7^th May 2015
Nobel Symposium on Sustainability, PIKS-Asia Foundation, Hong Kong, 22-24^th April 2015
UN Habitat, Governing Council, Nairobi, 20^th April 2015
Climate change, CARIAA national consultation, New Delhi,18th April 2015
Fiscal meeting, PHFI, Gurgaon, 2^nd March 2015
SDSN, Istanbul, 15-19^th February 2015
Tata Sustainability, Pune, 22^nd January 2015
New School, IIHS, Bangalore, 7-9^th January 2015

2014

Cities can save us, TEDx Palais des Nations, Geneva, 11^th December 2014
RF Resilience, NUS, Singapore, 2-3^rd December 2014
Kapucinski lecture, University of Cape Town, 3-6^th November 2014
UNISDR GAR15, University of Miami, 30^th September – 1^st October 2014
UNSDSN Leadership Council, New York, 19-20^th September 2014
UN Habitat Inside Out conference, New School, New York, 16^th September 2014
Balaton Group meeting, Balaton, 14^th September 2014
UCL convening, London, 22-24^th August 2014
ASSAR meeting, IIHS, Bangalore, 21-23^rd July 2014
Keynote, DPU at 60, 2-4^th July 2014
UNSDSN Leadership Council, Beijing, 15-16^th May 2014
Brainstorming on the Urban Agenda, UCLG, Barcelona, 28-29^th May 2014
IPCC AR5 Plenary, Yokohama, 24-28^th March 2014
ASSAR meeting, Nairobi, 3-8^th March 2014
GAR 15 meeting, IIHS, Bangalore 26-28^th February 2014
Lecture on “Future of Liberal Arts & Sciences”, Yale-RRI-IIHS, Bangalore, 9^th January 2014
Speech on “Sustainable Cities” to UN Open Working Group on the SDGs, United Nations, 6-8^th January 2014

2013

UNISDR GAR15 Board, Geneva, 26-28^th November 2013
Innovation conference, University of Pennsylvania, 14-15^th November 2013
ADB, Manila, 23-24^th October 2013
Closing Keynote, UCLG Summit, Rabat, 3-5^th October 2013
UNSDSN Leadership Council, 19-20^th September 2013
UCCRN conference, Columbia University, 17-18^th September 2013
Lecture on Royal Geographical Society conference, London, 30-31^st August 2013
SDSN SDG convening, Bellagio, 21-23^rd August 2013
SDG Health consultation, Hyderabad, 16-17^th August 2013
IPCC AR5 Lead Author meeting, Bled, Slovenia, 15-19^th July 2013
ICAS, Macao, 26-28^th June 2013
Keynote “Human City”, New Cities Summit, Sao Paolo, 4-6^th June 2013
Consultation on an Urban SDG, SDSN?, Bellagio, 22-25^th April 2013
GAR 15 meeting, San Jose, Costa Rica, 18-20^th April 2013
UC Berkeley Urban conference, IIHS, Bangalore, 26-27^th March 2013
Transportation in Bangalore, AusAID-Curtin University, Bangalore, 16^th March 2013
Keynote DFID India, New Delhi, 20^th February 2013
UNISDR GAR 2015 Board meeting, Geneva, 7-8^th February 2013
Transport Round Table, University of Mumbai, 31^st January 2013

2012

UKNA convening, Delft, 5-6^th November 2012
India China Institute, New Delhi, 2^nd November 2012
IPCC AR5 Lead Author meeting, Buenos Aires, 21-25^th October 2012
Rockefeller Foundation, Development Solutions conference, Bangkok, 27-28^th September 2012
Lecture at Indiaspora convening, New York,15-16^th September 2012
Keynote at India-Today conference, Copenhagen, 13^th September 2012
Lecture on 2^nd Vice Chancellor’ Retreat, Delhi, 2^nd September 2012
Keynote on Energy Positive Habitats, Auroville, 1^st September 2012
ISEC-Brown seminar 3-4^th January 2012

2011

Indian Urban conference, New Delhi, 22nd November 2011
Indian Urban conference, Mysore, 17-19th November 2011
Indian Urban conference Opening panel, New Delhi, 9th November 2011
India Urban conference, Yale, 29-30th May 2011
SI workshop, University of Stellenbosch, 31st March- 1st April 2011
ACC workshop, 28-30th March 2011
21st Century City, UC Berkeley conference, Delhi, 25th March 2011
IPCC Infrastructure, Kolkata, 24th March 2011
GAR 11, Geneva, 23-25th February 2011
ICRIER workshop, New Delhi, 24th January 2011
IPCC, AR5, Working Group II LAM1, Tsukuba Japan, 11-16th January 2011
IIHS Curriculum meeting, Bangalore, 3-7th January 2011

2010

Keynote IHDP, Tempe, Arizona 16^th October 2010
Lecture, University of Denver, 11^th October 2010
ACSP, Minneapolis, 9^th October 2010
Opening Keynote, AAPS Conference, 5-6^th October 2010
Keynote on Funding Agra, 8^th August 2010
Urbanisation Seminar, French Institute, Pondicherry, 16^th July 2010
DPU Panel, Mihir Shah, 23^rd June 2010
IIHS DPU convening, London, 21-22^nd June 2010
IIHS Curriculum meeting, London, 14-17^th June 2010
ACC meeting, Cape Town, 10-14^th May 2010
Chair of IIHS Curriculum Partners conference, Bengaluru, 5-8^th January 2010

2009

Lecture on Foundations of Good Governance in India: 60 years of the First Republic, DFID India, New Delhi 2^nd December 2009
Lecture on India’s Urban Transformation from Challenge to Opportunity DPU Dialogues in Development lecture series, UCL London, 18^th November 2009
IIHS Curriculum Partners conference, UCL London 15-18^th November 2009
Lecture on India’s Urban Transformation from Challenge to Opportunity Ideo Know How lecture series Palo Alto, 12^th November 2009
Baker Memorial lecture on The Opportunities of India’s Urban Transformation, Thrissur, 5^th October 2009
Keynote on A brief history of the Sustainable Development project and ‘beyond’ at the Balaton Group Annual meeting, Balatonszèmes, Hungary, 8^th September 2009
Lecture at MIT India Urb-Lab Eastern waterfront studio, Mumbai 1^st September 2009
Chair of IIHS Curriculum Partners conference, Bellagio, 25-28^th August 2009
Opening Keynote IIHS Curriculum Partners conference, MIT, Boston, 6-7^th April 2009
UNDP/ISDR international workshop on Global Assessment of Risk report (2009), Bangkok, 15^th March 2009

S.no	University
1	Arizona State University, Tempe
2	Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok
3	Australian National University, Canberra
4	Bocconi University, Milan
5	Boston University, Boston
6	Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
7	Columbia University, New York
8	Curtin University, Perth
9	Danish Technical University, Copenhagen
10	Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
11	Delft University of Technology, Delft
12	Erasmus University, Rotterdam
13	EAFIT University, Medellin
14	Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
15	ETH, Zurich
16	Federal University, Rio de Janeiro
17	Federal University of Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo
18	Florida International University, Florida
19	Harvard University, Cambridge
20	Imperial College, London
21	Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
22	John Hopkins University, Washington DC
23	Kyoto University, Kyoto
24	London School of Economics, London
25	Lund University, Lund
26	Mahidol University, Bangkok
27	Makerere University, Kampala
28	Mohammed VI University, Morocco
29	Melbourne University, Melbourne
30	MIT, Cambridge
31	Monash University, Melbourne
32	Moscow State University, Moscow
33	National University of Singapore, Singapore
34	New York University, New York
35	Peking University, Beijing
36	Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City
37	RMIT University, Melbourne
38	Roskilde University, Denmark
39	Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
40	Sciences Po, Paris
41	Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
42	Stanford University, Stanford
43	Sunway University, Subang Jaya
44	Technical University of Berlin, Berlin
45	The New School University, New York
46	Tsinghua University, Beijing
47	Tongji University, Shanghai
48	University of Algarve, Faro
49	University College, London
50	University of Botswana, Gaborone
51	University of California, Berkeley
52	University of Cambridge, Cambridge
53	University of Cape Town, Cape Town
54	University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
55	University of Exeter, Exeter
56	University of Groningen, Groningen
57	University of Havana, Havana
58	University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
59	University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg
60	University of Leuven, Leuven
61	University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban
62	University of Loughborough, Loughborough
63	University of Melbourne, Melbourne
64	University of Oxford, Oxford
65	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
66	University of Pretoria, Pretoria
67	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
68	University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch
69	University of Tokyo, Tokyo
70	University of Toronto, Toronto
71	Utrecht University, Utrecht
72	Vienna Technical University, Vienna
73	Yale University, New Haven
74	Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
75	Anna University, Chennai
76	CEPT University, Ahmedabad
77	Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
78	Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata
79	Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
80	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
81	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
82	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
83	Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
84	Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
85	Institute for Advanced Studies, Shimla
86	Institute of Rural Management, Anand
87	Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi
88	Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
89	National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
90	National Institute for Advanced Studies, Bangalore
91	National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
92	School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi
93	School of Planning & Architecture, Vijayawada
94	School of Planning & Architecture, Bhopal
95	Savitribai Phule University, Pune
96	Symbiosis University, Pune
97	Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai
98	University of British Columbia, Vancouver
99	University of Bombay, Mumbai
100	University of Delhi, Delhi