Shagun Mehrotra

Shagun Mehrotra is a Faculty Fellow at Columbia University. His research, teaching, and policy advice focus on infrastructure economics and finance, development economics, and poverty reduction in cities, particularly in large developing-country slums. Shagun is Managing Director of Climate and Cities, an international policy advisory facility at CCSR, Columbia University, New York, and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Previously, he was on the staff of the World Bank, leading infrastructure reform of public utilities in Africa. Over the last decade, his advice and research has been sought by national and local governments in East Africa, South-East Asia, China, and India; as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Columbia Earth Institute.