Masterclasses are a critical learning space for the Fellows that will go beyond technical and disciplinary knowledge; they will provide Fellows with opportunities to meet thought-leaders and practitioners from India and across the world, to learn about their work and the challenges they face as practitioners in different disciplines and domains. These close interactions will help the Fellows learn about diverse ethical, political, and material complexities while practicing in urban contexts. It will also expose the Fellows to specific domain knowledge that is rooted in years of experience. Masterclasses will help our Fellows identify and explore professional options and career trajectories after successfully graduating.
UFP Masterclasses have been taught by:
- Dr. Vijay Kelkar (Former Chairman of the XIII Finance Commission, Former Advisor to the Minister of Finance, Former IMF Executive Director, Former Finance Secretary)
- Dr. Paul Rabe (Co-ordinator – Urban Knowledge Network Asia)
- Mr. Ajay Noronha (Cinematographer and Documentary film maker)
- Prof. Barbara Harriss-White (Senior Research Fellow, Area Studies, University of Oxford)
- Mr. C B Bhave (former Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India)
- Ms. Champaka Rajagopal (Principal Urban Designer and Planner, Groupe SCE India)
- Prof. Darshini Mahadevia (Professor, Faculty of Planning, CEPT University, Ahmedabad)
- Mr. Nikhil Dey (Social activist – RTI, Co-founder – Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, Co-convener – National Campaign for People’s Right to Information)
- Mr. Deepak Sanan (former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Himachal Pradesh)
- Dr. Rahul Sami (Staff Software Engineer at Google, Former Associate Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
- Mr. Dinesh Kumar Mishra (Director, MITM Jamshedpur)
- Prof. Harini Nagendra (Professor of Sustainability, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)
- Mr. S.V. Ranganath (former Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka)
- Paul Divakar and Beena Pallickal (National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights)
- Nandan Nilekani (ex-CEO, Infosys and former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India)
- Renana Jhabvala (National coordinator of the Self-Employed Women’s Association, and Chairperson, SEWA Bharat)
- Mr. Vijayan Menon (Planning activist, Bengaluru)
- Dr. O. P Agarwal (Chief Executive Officer at WRI: World Resources Institute)
- Dr. Ajay Mathur (Director General of TERI – The Energy & Resources Institute)
