Shiv Someshwar

Dr. Someshwar is a Development Clinician, diagnosing development of cities and nation states. A Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York and at Sciences Po, Paris, he was the founder chair-holder of the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition at Sciences Po.  He helped set up the initial national and regional networks of the global Sustainable Development Solutions Network. 

His publications cover a range of issues: planning, institutions and governance of sustainable development; climate change mitigation, adaptation, risks and offsets; and ecosystem management. He edited ‘Re-living the Memories of an Indian forester: Memoirs of S. Shyam Sunder’ and is presently writing ‘The Fallacy of Evidence-Based Policy Making.’ His recent podcast on climate and development can be found here

Dr. Someshwar convened and chaired the Independent Task Force on Creative Climate Action. He has a Ph.D. in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a Bell-MacArthur fellow at Harvard University. He has two masters’ degrees, on housing and on environmental planning, and is also trained as a professional architect. He has previously worked at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, and the World Bank in Washington D.C.

Education

• PhD in Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles

Affiliations

• UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
• Advisory Council of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations
• Centre for Wildlife Studies
• Arghyam
• Center for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management

Honors and Awards

• Bell-MacArthur Fellowship at Harvard University