Shipra Narang Suri

Founder and Principal, Development Impact Advisors

Dr Shipra Narang Suri is the Founder and Principal of Development Impact Advisors, a newly-established advisory practice focused on impact in sustainable development. She is a leader in international development with nearly three decades of experience in sustainable development, poverty reduction, climate action, urbanization and cities, gender, and social inclusion. She is a strategic thinker, visionary, and effective communicator of vision and impact with powerful writing and oratory skills. Dr Suri served as the Vice-President of the General Assembly of Partners for Habitat III, in which capacity she played a leading role in the drafting of - and negotiations over - the New Urban Agenda.

Articles by Shipra Narang Suri

1. The New Urban Agenda at ten: still fit for purpose?

   Shipra Narang Suri

   Cities — Global

   Ten years on, the New Urban Agenda has shaped national urban policies, but much-anticipated innovations in financing have yet to deliver at scale, and the stakeholders who helped create it have been sidelined. Its halfway point raises a bigger question about whether 20-year global frameworks still make sense in a world of fast-moving, overlapping crises

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   28 October 2026

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