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Nausheen Anwar

Urban climate resilience lead and principal researcher, IIED's Human Settlements research group

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Languages: English, Urdu/Hindi (fluent), Punjabi

Nausheen is a specialist in cities and climate change with a strong focus on extreme heat impacts. World-leading researcher on multi-dimensional risks and uncertainties and the gendered/intersectional implications and impacts on urban systems, people and public health.

Expertise

Asia-Africa climate change; extreme heat; cities; infrastructures; health; resilience.

Before IIED

  • Fellow, Cities Cluster, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, 2021-24
  • Professor city and regional planning, School of Economics & Social Sciences (SESS), Institute of Business Administration (IBA), 2011 – Present, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Postdoctoral fellow, asian urbanisms cluster, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University Singapore, August 2012 – July 2014, Singapore
  • Guest lecturer, humanities & social sciences program, Agha Khan University (AKU), 2010-11, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Postdoctoral fellow, South Asia Initiative, Harvard University, 2008 – 2009, Cambridge, MA, USA

Education

  • Doctor of philosophy in city and regional planning, 2007, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (GSAPP), NY
  • Masters. international affairs, international policy analysis and public management, Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs, New York, NY
  • BA (hons), political science, City University of New York, (CUNY) Hunter College, New York, NY

Current work

Nausheen's current work looks at the interactions between vulnerability, climate change impacts – eg heat (extreme, chronic), urban flooding – and post-colonial histories/contexts of infrastructural violence, land displacement and anti-poor urban planning in the urban global South. 

She is particularly interested in understanding the multi-dimensional risks and uncertainties that arise from these interactions, and the gendered/intersectional implications and impacts on urban systems, people and public health, for instance the impact of extreme heat on malnutrition as it pertains specifically to the health of female internally displaced peoples in informal settlements. 

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