Om Prakash Mathur
Visiting Senior Fellow
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Om Prakash Mathur is Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) Research Foundation and Senior Fellow, Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto. He served from 2014-19 as a Senior Fellow and Chair, Urban Studies, at the Institute of Social Sciences and held from 1992-2011, the position of IDFC Chair at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. From 1984-1992, Om Prakash Mathur was Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs, and a Distinguished Professor from 2011-2014.
Om Prakash Mathur has written extensively on urbanisation, urban governance, and urban finance, and authored several books and a number of papers published in peer- reviewed journals and books. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and has attended graduate courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.