ICI is hosting Aromar Revi to deliver a special public talk on “The global challenge of implementing the urban SDGs.” Mr Revi will dissect the United Nation’s SDGs, which have been well-crafted to guide the public’s understanding of complex sustainable development challenges, inspire public and private action, promote integrated thinking, and foster accountability.

Aromar Revi is currently the Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. He is an international practitioner with over thirty years of inter-disciplinary experience. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), co-chair of its Urban thematic group, where he leads a global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). He is also a past fellow of the India China Institute.

Professor Shagun Mehrotra will serve as a panelist. Mehrota is a Professor of Sustainable Development at The New School and is the founding Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Center. Professor Mehrotra serves on UNSDSN’s Urban Thematic Group charged by the UN Secretary General as an external advisory group for the post-2015 development agenda.  Mehrotra co-directs UCCRN, a global research network of 500 scholars and practitioners based in a 100 cities dedicated to urban climate change research and policymaking.