Nausheen Hafeeza Anwar

Nausheen Hafeeza Anwar is a Researcher at the School of Economics & Social Sciences (SESS) within the Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan. Her work bridges critical urban studies, anthropology, and climate justice, focusing on the Global South.

• PhD in City & Regional Planning from Columbia University
• Key research areas: Climate vulnerability, infrastructural violence, gendered impacts of urban planning

Research Themes:

• Multi-dimensional risks from climate change (heat, flooding) and post-colonial urban contexts
• Intersectional impacts on public health and urban systems
• Climate/environmental representation in 20th-century post-colonial architecture

Projects:

• "Cool Infrastructures": Cooling solutions in urban poverty across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa
• "Land, Governance and Gendered Politics of Displacement in Urban Pakistan"
• "Climate Change and Urban Violence Network"

Scientific Engagement:

• WHO-WMO Technical Global Advisory Group (2022)
• Fellow at Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex (2021)
• Leadership Council, SDSN-PK, Agha Khan University (2021)