Shaping resilient, low-carbon cities across four continents.
Shailendra Kaushik is Co-Founder of Cities Forum and author of AI Applications in Urban Planning. For more than 25 years he has advised governments and development partners, including ADB, the World Bank, KfW, GIZ, GGGI and UNEP, on transport policy, electric mobility and infrastructure finance across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific.
Areas of expertise
Full profile →Electric Mobility
National e-mobility policies, large-scale bus electrification, charging infrastructure and grid integration, in settings as different as Nauru, the world's smallest island nation, and India, the most populous; from lower-middle-income Kenya to five European Union countries.
PPP & Infrastructure Finance
Structuring bankable projects in mass transit, logistics and smart infrastructure, including Dubai's first PPP under the Dubai PPP Law, and financial due diligence for multilateral lenders.
Multimodal Transport Planning
Integrated mobility plans that connect metro, light rail, commuter rail, BRT, bus and feeder services into one network, with Mobility as a Service frameworks, demand modelling and mobility master plans, from Delhi's first CNG buses to today's zero-emission mandates.
Decarbonization & Climate
National transport decarbonization roadmaps, NDC-aligned investment planning and climate finance frameworks, translating emission and clean-air objectives into finance-ready strategies.
AI Applications in Urban Planning
How artificial intelligence is genuinely transforming cities, drawn from real deployments from Singapore to Barcelona and Helsinki to Medellín, and the hard questions of surveillance, algorithmic bias, data sovereignty and equity that come with it.