Jagan Shah

Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology

Jagan Shah is Professor of Practice at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre in the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. From 2013 to 2019, he was Director of the National Institute of Urban Affairs, India’s premier urban thinktank, where he co-created the Smart Cities Mission, prepared the Draft Master Plan for Delhi 2041, designed the EU-and-AfD-supported ‘City Investments to Innovate Integrate and Sustain’ (CITIIS) program and incubated centres for digital governance, sanitation and climate adaptation.

His recent roles include CEO of The Infravision Foundation (2023-26), Senior Infrastructure Adviser in UK’s Department for International Development (2019-21), where he designed CDRI’s Infrastructure for Resilient Island States (IRIS) facility launched at COP26, and Senior Adviser (Capacity Building) at The World Bank (2022-24), where he supported the delivery of the National Infrastructure Pipeline. Shah studied architectural design and history, theory & criticism in New Delhi, Cincinnati and New York.