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‘My job is not to fix everything on the planet’ Perhaps not all of it. But Priti Parikh is working to make sure her students can wrap things up
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s a teenager in India, Priti Parikh would follow her father, also an engineer, into slums and informal settlements as he worked to improve sanitation and water access for the poor. Today, Parikh, who has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, is the founder of Engineering for International Development (EFID), at the University College in London, and is recognized by Apolitical as one of
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the 100 most influential academics for government and policy-making in climate and sustainability. EFID advises policymakers and charities on sustainable engineering solutions for human development and wellbeing, especially in low- and middle-income countries in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. We sat down to chat with Parikh about her life’s work and to learn from a woman at the forefront of technological innovations about
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PRATIKA YASHASWI
