Fellow, Adaptation and Resilience

mukta@sustainablefutures.org

Dr. Mukta Naik is a Fellow, Adaptation and Resilience, at the Sustainable Futures Collaborative. An architect and urban planner, her research interests lie in urban transformations, housing, livelihoods, and migration. She examines these issues through the lens of urban governance and policy, with a focus on informality, equitable access and climate resilience. In the recent past, Mukta led policy work on urban livelihoods at the National Institute of Urban Affairs. Previously, as a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, her research focused on housing informality, urban migration, social protection, women’s work and small city governance. Mukta has also engaged as a planner and community development expert with various NGOs, and taught as visiting faculty at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and Ambedkar University Delhi. Mukta holds a PhD in Urban Development and Governance from Erasmus University Rotterdam, a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Texas A&M University, and a B. Arch from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.