Naim Keruwala is an Urban Management professional with over 14 years of diversified sector experience. He currently leads the CITIIS program as a Program Director at the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), a central autonomous body under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Government of India. He also heads the Sustainable Cities India Program in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and coordinates the Leaders in Climate Change Management (LCCM) program in collaboration with WRI India, UNEP, and ISB. Naim is a Senior Fellow at the Symbiosis Centre for Urban Studies, and he has also taught post-graduate students at the Symbiosis School of Economics, Pune, as a visiting professor for Urban Economic Development for eight years. His research papers and articles have been published by UNESCO, Business Standard, Youth Policy Labs, CCDS, and Cambridge Scholars, among others.