Pushpa Pathak

Dr. Pushpa Pathak is a Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. Dr. Pathak has over 4 decades of extensive experience of working in the field of Urban Development in the Global South. She has worked with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi; World Bank Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia, New Delhi; UN-HABITAT Afghanistan; and School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. She has published a number of papers in reputed Indian and international journals as well as in edited volumes. Dr. Pathak is currently writing a book based on a longitudinal study titled: ``Forty Years’ Development Saga of Dhampur: Growth Dynamics and Regional Transformation of an Indian Small Town.’’
Dr. Pathak has a Ph. D. degree in Regional Development from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a Ford Fellow at the Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of technology, U.S.A. in the academic year 1989-90.