Shagun MehrotraShagun Mehrotra is Managing Director of Climate and Cities, an international policy advisor facility jointly housed at Columbia University, New York and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. With an interdisciplinary team of scientists and poicy makers around the world, Shagun is crafting a global institutional structure for a programmatic approach to incorporate climate risk into city development by leveraging existing and planned investments. He has developed a comprehensive framework for city climate risk assessment that combines hazards, vulnerabilities, and agency. As Faculty Fellow at Columbia University, his research and policy advice focus on infrastructure economics and finance, development economics, and poverty reduction in slums. Previously, he was on the staff of the World Bank, leading infrastructure reform of state-owned utilities in Africa. Over the last decade, Shagun's advice has been sought by national and local governments in East Africa, South-East Asia, China, and India, as well as the United Nations' Human Development Report, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Columbia Earth Institute. The President of India recently wrote a foreword for his co-authored book Bankruptcy to Billions: How the Indian Railways Transformed (2011). Read More Read Less