Company / Institute
Western Sydney University

Track
Track 5: SMART FUTURES and sustainability: planning for innovation

Position
Associate Professor Urban Planning

Bio
Associate Professor Awais Piracha is an urban planning academic with the Western Sydney University in Australia. He is a renewed international expert in the areas of sustainable urban development and use of spatial analysis in land use and transport planning. Professor Piracha was trained as a civil/environmental engineer as well as a town planner. He is a Planning Institute of Australia Registered Practicing Planner and a NSW Independent Hearing and Assessment Panel Expert. He previously worked as a researcher with the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Bangkok and University of Dortmund Germany. In his professional career spanning over two decades, Professor Piracha has led or participated in numerous research and consultancy projects as an urban planning expert.

1. Second Plenary - 09 Sep, 2019

2. Closing Plenary - 12 Sep, 2019