Dr. Aseem Inam is an activist/scholar/practitioner who is professor and chair in Urban Design at Cardiff University in the UK, and founding director of TRULAB: Laboratory for Designing Urban Transformation. He was previously the John Bousfield Distinguished Scholar at the University of Toronto in Canada, and the founding director of the highly innovative Graduate Program in Urban Practice at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. He is the author of several award-winning journal articles, book chapters and professional reports, and two books, Planning for the Unplanned and Designing Urban Transformation, and is currently working on a third book, partially funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. He has practiced as an urbanist in Brazil, Canada, France, Greece, Haiti, India, United Kingdom, and the United States.