About Ripin Kalra

Ripin Kalra leads ICF’s urban analytics, planning, and climate resilience work, with a significant focus on nature-based solutions, sustainable food systems, urban livelihoods, and resource-efficient development. He has also co-founded the Urban, Gender and Inclusion Lab at ICF. During his career, he worked on urban-resilience and risk-reduction projects in more than 30 countries while in senior and leadership positions in global engineering, multi-disciplinary and integrated-planning firms. In his work, Ripin collaborates extensively with public and private sector clients, urban local authorities, international financing institutions, foundations, and NGOs. He is currently a team leader for Kathmandu Valley Diagnostic Study (World Bank), technical advisor on the Nepal Urban Resilience Project (UK FCDO), and Project Director for Low Carbon Korea (EU).