PANELLISTS & SPEAKERS
Held every year in the last week of November, UPD has, since 2015, brought together India’s leading urban thinkers and practitioners to reflect on the state of the urban and the policy agenda needed to realise the rich development possibilities that the country’s urbanisation presents. The past eight editions of the UPD have informed several national and state-level policy stances, which in turn, have gone on to shape the country’s urbanisation.
2024
Rajashree Murkute
Senior Director – Large Corporate & Infrastructure Ratings CareEdge
Harsh Singhal
Partner, ProsperETE
Sameer Sinha
Founder and CEO, Savvy Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd
Smita Chandiwala
Founding Principal, Energe-se
Thiru K. Phanindra Reddy
Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu
Vijay Laxman Kelkar
Former Finance Secretary, Government of India
Kshitij Batra
Co-Founder and CEO, Terra Economics and Analytics Lab
Niladri Prasad Mishra
Senior Vice President, Head -Global Infrastructure & Climate Action Infosys
G Mathi Vathanan
Director General, State Administrative Training Institute, Odisha
Tarun Cherukuri
Co-Founder and CEO, Indus Action
Shrayana Bhattacharya
Economist, World Bank
Sakshi Gudwani
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Shweta Pandey
Vice President & General Counsel at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
Mahesh Rajasekar
CDRI
Paneesh Rao
Chief Sustainability Officer, LTIMindtree
Chandra Bhushan
Chief Executive Officer, iFOREST
Kunal Satyarthi
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development
Nidhi Srivastava
Law and Policy Specialist
Debashis Bandyopadhyay
Chief General Manager, SEBI
Kanishk Negi
Sustainable Procurement Director, Schneider Electric
2023
Nasser Munjee
Board Member, IIHS
Ashwini Saxena
Chief Executive Officer, JSW Foundation
Srinivas Ramanujam
Chief Executive Officer, Villgro
V Ravichandar
Chairperson, Feedback Consulting
Anshul Mishra
Member-Secretary, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority
Shubha Raul
Former Mayor, Mumbai – Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
Debolina Kundu
Professor, National Institute of Urban Affairs
Shrimoyee Bhattacharya
Program Lead - Urban Development at the Sustainable Cities and Transport, WRI
Roshan Toshniwal
Head - Centre for Future Mobility, OMI Foundation
Archana Tripathi
Chief Executive Authority, Saahas
Somnath Sharma
Director, Economic and Policy Research Department, Reserve Bank of India
Milind Mhaske
Founder and Chief Executive Authority, Praja Foundation
Jeeth Iype
Co-Founder, GoodEarth
N K Sudhanshu
Settlement Commissioner and Director of Land Records, Government of Maharashtra
Sunita Purushottam
Head of Sustainability at Mahindra Lifespace Developers.
Mamatha B R
Inspector General of Registration, Government of Karnataka
Ray Sharat Prasad
Lawyer and Founder, Delta 1Law
Sunali Rohra
Senior Executive Vice President, HDFC Bank
2022
Amita Bhide
Prof. and Dean, School of Habitat Studies, TISS
A Ravindra
Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Karnataka
Keshav Varma
Chairperson, HLCUP, MoHUA, Govt. of India
Surendrakumar Bagde
Additional Secretary, MOHUA, Govt. of India
Anthony de Sa
Ex-Chairperson, RERA, Madhya Pradesh
Om Prakash Mathur
Senior Fellow, Global Cities Institute, Toronto
Tikender Panwar
Former Deputy Mayor, Shimla
Vikrant Gojamgunde
Former Mayor, Latur Municipal Corporation
Krishnamurthy Vijayan
Advisor and Ex-CEO, TNIFMC
Anjalee Tarapore
General Manager, HDFC
Harpal Dave
Additional Chief Town Planner, Govt. of Gujarat
D Thara
Additional Secretary, MOHUA, Govt. of India
R K Srinivasan
Technical Advisor- WASH, USAID
2021
N K Singh
Chairperson, Fifteenth Finance Commission
Renana Jhabvala
Chairperson, SEWA Bharat
Dr Sameer Sharma
Chief Secretary, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
Kamal Kishore
Member, NDMA, Govt. of India
Dr Sumila Gulyani
Program Leader, Sustainable Development, World Bank
D. Thara
Additional Secretary, MOHUA, Govt. of India
Shiv Das Meena
Chief Secretary, Govt. of Tamil Nadu
Sarada Muraleedharan
Additional Chief Secretary, LSGD, Govt. of Kerala
V. K. Madhavan
CEO, WaterAid India
G Mathi Vathanan
Director General, State Administrative Training Institute, Odisha
Pravir Kumar
Ex-Chairperson, UP Board of Revenue
Gautam Chatterjee
Founder Chairperson, RERA, Maharashtra