Bishwapriya Sanyal

Bish Sanyal is the Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning and Director of the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS)/Hubert Humphrey Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT from 1994 to 2002 and was Chair of the MIT faculty from 2007 to 2009. Sanyal’s research, teaching, and academic leadership reflect his multidisciplinary education in architecture (BA) from IIT (Kharagpur), urban planning (MUP) from the University of Kansas, and international development planning (PhD) from the University of California in Los Angeles. Sanyal has published extensively on topics of urban development, informal economy and housing, planning theory of planning education. He is the recipient of many awards including the Distinguish Planning Educator Award given to the highest award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.