Shuaib Lwasa

Shuaib is a Professor of Urban Resilience and Global Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Shuaib also holds Chair of spatial planning for urban resilience at Faculty of Geo-Information science and earth observation, University of Twente, Netherlands. Shuaib has over 2 and half decades experience in higher education and research. He is the founding coordinator of the Urban Action Research Lab investigating urban transitions and resilience in global south cities. His research focuses intractable urban development challenges for actionable, scalable, innovative, and equitable solutions related to local economic development, urban infrastructure systems, climate change adaptation and resilience in global south cities. Shuaib has also researched the interlinkages between urbanization and migration in Africa and works on the frontline of sustainable cities that recentres people.