Divya Sharma is a Fellow in the Centre for Research in Sustainable Urban Development and Transport Systems at the Sustainable Habitat Division at TERI. She is also a Senior Consultant-Urban Policy at Oxford Policy Management Limited, India. She is a trained architect and an urban planner and holds a PhD in urban climate change adaptation in cities. She has a research and capacity building experience of more than 10 years on sustainable and climate resilient urban development and urban governance issues.