Dr. Sudha Mohan was former Professor and Head in the Department of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai. She was nominated as Mentor Professor in the Bharathiar University, Coimbatore from 2022. She taught courses on Urban Politics, Comparative Politics, Development Discourse and New Politics of Identity at the Masters level. She is engaged in Inter-disciplinary teaching, research, writing and guiding M.Phil and PhD students. She has published one book and has 33 articles in edited books and in journals, both national and international. She has published in the areas of Development, Urban Governance, Globalisation, Local-Global Interface, Civil Society, Politics of Urban Space, Right to the City, BRICS and Human Security among others. She has participated and presented her research papers in several national and international seminars and conferences and has also collaborated in interdisciplinary and comparative research projects nationally and internationally. Dr. Mohan was the recipient of the following Awards and Fellowships notable being: Faculty Training and Internationalization Grant (SFTIG) administered by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Canada, Ryersaon University, Toronto, Canada, May-June 2018. Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, Grenoble, France, October/November 2017 BPC Fellow at BRICS Policy Center, in Rio de Jeneiro, Brazil in June 2013. Visiting Scholar at the European Commission for the Interdisciplinary Erasmus Mundus Master’s Course on ‘International Cooperation and Urban Development’ during the academic year 2009-2010. Awarded the Nirman Visiting Fellowship at University of Westminster, London at the Centre for the Study of Democracy for two months from mid May to mid July 2009. Selected as Faculty to teach Urban Politics and Development and to co-teach Contemporary Urban Issues: Problems and Solutions at the International Honors Program that was affiliated to World Learning and Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA, for the fall Semester 2008. The program titled ‘Cities in the 21st Century.’ Recipient of the Best Teacher Award, with a citation “in recognition of her valuable contributions to knowledge, teaching and research with a sense of commitment, dedication and sincerity.” It was awarded on 26th January 2007. (India’s Republic Day). Awarded the Sr. Fulbright Fellowship by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs and the Foreign Fulbright Scholarship Board in Washington, DC for a period of Eight months (November 2004 to June 2005). Her areas of research interest and specialisation include Urban Studies, Development Studies, Comparative Politics and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her current projects/research works include Non-Traditional Security Threats, Politics and Production of Urban Space, Right to the City, Critical Urban concerns in BRICS and Exploring Inclusive and Sustainable Development and Substantive Democracy and Democratic Alternatives.