Ms. Shirin Malekpour
Associate Professor at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
Dr Shirin Malekpour (Australia) is a social scientist with expertise in strategic planning and governance for sustainable development. She has been Chief Investigator in transdisciplinary research projects focusing on long-term infrastructure planning, transformative adaptation, futures thinking, scenario planning under deep uncertainty, collaborative governance and localising the SDGs. She advises government and industry in Australia on long-term and sustainable development strategies, and her work has been adopted to guide strategic planning processes in the urban water sector. In 2018, Shirin was recognised as one of the top 25 young scientists in the world in the field of sustainable development and received the international Green Talents award. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy – flagship publication of the C40 initiative. She also co-leads the working group on sub-national SDG implementation in the Earth Systems Governance Network. Shirin has an interdisciplinary background and has previously worked as a civil engineer in large urban water infrastructure projects in Africa and the Middle East.