Nivedita Joshi

Indian Institute for Human Settlements

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution and a prospective national university, committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of urban Indian settlements. IIHS is a prospective independent national institution of eminence and innovation university focused on its urbanisation. The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will create and nurture a unique, inclusive and innovative interdisciplinary knowledge-based university of global stature that is rooted in the plurality of Indian and other South Asian cultures, languages and scholarship and is open to all. It is focussed on the creation, dissemination and application of knowledge and practice in all matters connected with the establishment, operation and transformation of human settlements; more particularly human settlements located in India and South Asia. The team within the institution brings together a wide range of multi-sectoral perspectives, experiences and skills to address a range of challenges and opportunities that IIHS works with. This ranges from strategy, regulation, resource mobilisation, financial management, institutional and human resources development, campus planning and development to core functions of curriculum development, teaching and research, training and development, consulting and advisory service delivery.