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Zeenat Niazi

Society For Development Alternatives

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Zeenat Niazi

Partner, AeD Studio - Ecological Design Solutions; Guest Faculty, SPA and TERI-SAS, New Delhi; Chief Advisor, Climate Resilience and Circular Economy Programs, Development Alternatives Group, New Delhi, India

An architect and development planner, Zeenat Niazi guides research on public policy and development action focused on local, national, and global concerns on sustainable consumption and production, green and inclusive circular economy models, and building resilience to climate change in rapidly transforming contexts of the global south.
She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Green Economy Coalition (GEC) in India, a member of the Steering Group of the Future Earth Urban Knowledge Action Network (Urban-KAN), Chair of the Working Group on Rural Housing, and a member of CED 51- Committee on Housing and Planning of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). In the past, she has been a member of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee (MAC) of the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme of UN’s One Planet Network, member and Co-Chair of the Board of the Climate Action Network South Asia, member of the Taskforce of the Rural Housing, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India and a member of the Sub-Committee on Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Urban Areas of the NITI Aayog, Government of India.
Zeenat mentors the policy studies and development action initiatives at the Development Alternatives Group. She also provides technical guidance to the Global Building Performance Network on Healthy Cities and to Gurujal- water resilience initiative in India
She is researching reciprocal relationships between learning systems and nature-based solutions for urban resilience, for which she is pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, India. She teaches a course on Planning the City and co-conducts an Urban Transformation lab for Urban Design students at the School of Planning, New Delhi and teaches a course on climate change and governance at the TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi. She has previously taught courses on Sustainability and the Built Environment at the Anant National University, Ahmedabad, conducted faculty improvement courses for architecture and management faculty at various institutions and delivered guest lectures at the National Institute of Technology Calicut, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Impact and Policy Research Institute, India and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, India.

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  • Society For Development Alternatives Senior Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer
    1995 - 2024

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