Youth leading climate and local action for cities - a Global Perspective

Ranit Chatterjee is an architect turned disaster management professional with a doctoral degree in environmental management from Kyoto University, Japan. Having a work experience of over 12 years, he has been involved in various projects spanning from architectural planning & conservation to disaster risk reduction in countries across Asia. He is an IRDR Young scientist fellow (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk), a CEM member of the IUCN business and biodiversity group, and an Advisory member of UNDRR’s Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (SEM). He presents his views on the World Cities Day event at DAP-NITC in a session moderated by Dr Fathim Rashna Kallingal from GIZ, and coordinated by Dr Mohammed Firoz C and Dr Sanil Kumar. The expert lecture focuses on the Youth initiatives heralded by Dr Ranit in his interventions in the Asian region providing inspiration for PG and PhD researchers from the field.