Mihir Bhatt

Mihir R Bhatt leads All India Disaster Mitigation Institute in India, worked in over 53 cities and 80 districts, and over 9 states in India and 6 countries in the Asia Pacific . Currently he is working on understanding uncertainties and transformation in desert, delta, and coastal metro city areas in India; exploring temporality and hybridity in COVID 19 response by local authorities and NGO’s in South Asia; demanding universal social protection for informal sector and migrant workers in Asia Pacific.; documenting economic paradox of social distancing in  national command and control approach to pandemic; and health and well-being blindness of current urban planning. He is a member of advisory committee of the Platform of Disaster Displacement, Follow-up to the Nansen Initiative , Geneva, Switzerland, since October 2016.