Vineet Diwadkar

Bangkok

Vineet Diwadkar is a designer and urban planner working at the intersection of technology, ecology and policy. He is currently Associate Director with AECOM, Primary Investigator with the Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research, and Adjunct Faculty at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Vineet works with communities, governments and multilateral organizations, infrastructure owners and operators, and researchers to deliver strategic planning and policy, cross-sector infrastructure and development, and to strengthen livelihoods through ecological and heritage conservation. Over the past 16 years, he has managed and provided technical advisement in 13 countries. Recent projects include development and implementation of New York City’s Waterfront Code, preparation of the City of Detroit’s Strategic Plan for Technology & Data, and climate resilience programming with UN-HABITAT. Vineet is also co-author of “50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai,” a forthcoming book of maps, drawings and writing considering the role of the slum in generating Mumbai’s contemporary urban form. He has collaborated with New York City government on the design of a Universal Basic Income pilot study, has advised local governments and foundations on conservation planning, and community groups on livelihoods protection. Prior to joining AECOM, Vineet was a research associate with Urban South Asia Group and Urban Theory Lab at Harvard, designer and full-time faculty at the National Institute of Design, and designer with the Centre for Development Studies & Activities in India. Vineet holds Master in Landscape Architecture and Master in Urban Planning degrees from Harvard University, where he received the Penny White Prize and Paul M. Heffernan Fellowship, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from Georgia Tech.