I am a civil engineer and a social scientist. In my research, I study long-term planning processes in both private and public sectors, and develop interventions that can enable more robust decisions in the face of deep uncertainties and ever-increasing complexities. My work has strong implications for realising the vision of sustainable development.
I work at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute - a centre for sustainable development research and education at Monash University, Australia. I am leading an initiative on Futures, which aims to develop processes and tools to assist decision makers in framing futures issues and developing strategies in the context of sustainable development. These processes and tools include visioning and backcasting, scenario planning and stress-testing. etc.
I have several years of professional engineering experience in the private sector, and have been a project coordinator for large infrastructure projects across Africa and the Middle East.
Experience
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2016–presentResearch Leader in Strategic Planning and Futures Studies, Monash Sustainable Development Institute
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2015–2016Lecturer, International Water Centre
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2005–2010Project Coordinator, Kianab Group Co.
Education
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2016Monash University, PhD in Strategic Infrastrucutre Planning
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2012Delft University of Technology, Msc in Civil Engineering
Publications
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2017Preparing for disruptions: A diagnostic strategic planning intervention for sustainable development, Cities
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2016A methodology to enable exploratory thinking in strategic planning, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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2015Strategic planning of urban infrastructure for environmental sustainability: Understanding the past to intervene for the future, Cities
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2013Judgment under uncertainty; a probabilistic evaluation framework for decision-making about sanitation systems in low-income countries, Journal of Environmental Management
- Melbourne, Australia
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