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Arif Hasan, a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), is an architect/planner with a private practice in Karachi. He has decades of experience working on urban planning and development issues in general, and in Asia and Pakistan in particular. Hasan has been involved with the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) — an innovative Karachi-based organisation that supports community sanitation, education, microfinance and more— since 1982 and is a founding member and chair of the Urban Resource Centre (URC) in Karachi. He currently serves on the board of several international journals and research organisations, including the Bangkok-based Asian Coalition for Housing Rights. He is also a member of the India Committee of Honour for the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism. He has taught at Pakistani and European universities, served on juries of international architectural and development competitions, and is the author of a number of books on development and planning in Asian cities including Karachi. He has also received a number of awards for his work, which spans many countries.
E-mail: arifhasan@cyber.net.pk

Asiya Sadiq is a practicing architect and urban designer/planner, working as an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning at the NED University of Engineering and Technology (NED-UET) in Karachi. She has a masters in human settlements from the PGCHS, K.U.Leuven. She is actively involved in urban research and design, propagating it as a means of advocacy and negotiation for urban development. Sadiq was local coordinator for the European Union-funded Asia-Link project, being undertaken at NED-UET involving universities in Asia and Europe. She has lectured at both national and international universities, conferences and symposia and has authored and contributed to various publications. She is a founding member of the Urban Research and Design Cell (URDC) at the NED-UET and is currently serving as its main coordinator.
E-mail: asadiq@neduet.edu.pk

Suneela Ahmed studied architecture at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi and qualified in 2000. Subsequently she earned a degree in urban management from the University of Canberra, Australia. Currently, she is a visiting faculty and research assistant at the NED-UET in Karachi and a member of the university’s Urban Research and Design Cell.
E-mail: suneela_mail@yahoo.com

IIED: The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is an independent, non-profit research institute. Set up in 1971 and based in London, IIED provides expertise and leadership in researching and achieving sustainable development.

IIED's Human Settlements Group works to reduce poverty and improve health and housing conditions in the urban centres of Latin America, Asia and Africa. It seeks to combine this with promoting good governance and more ecologically sustainable patters of urban development. 
Contact: Gordon McGranahan, Head, Human Settlements Group, IIED
Email: gordon.mcgranahan@iied.org

UNFPA: UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. 
Contact: Jose Miguel Guzman, Chief, Population and Development Branch, UNFPA
Email: joguzman@unfpa.org