Dr Aurobindo Ogra

Aurobindo is an experienced urban development professional with more than 22 years of international project experience in multidisciplinary areas of Smart Cities, Urban Planning and Development, Urban Infrastructure, and Local Government, and Industrial Parks Development/ Special Economic Zones from South Africa, India and China. He has 15 years of experience in the Higher Education Institution (HEI) sector from University of Johannesburg, globally ranked 306th as per QS World University Rankings 2024. His current teaching, research and consulting interests span across areas of Smart City, Urban Infrastructure Planning and Development, Urban Governance, 4IR, Industrial Parks Development, Spatial Planning and Industrialization, Integrated Waste Management System, and other areas of built environment sector. He has supervised more than 60 research projects/dissertations from undergraduate to postgraduate levels and published/presented more than 60 research papers in the multidisciplinary urban sector thematic areas as journal articles, book chapters, and peer-reviewed conference proceedings and others.