Robin King
Robin King is the Director of Knowledge Capture and Collaboration at World Resources Institute (WRI) Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. She promotes collaboration across WRI’s international network to better integrate urban planning, land use, and sustainable transportation. Prior to WRI, she worked as Principal Research Scholar at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), in Bangalore, India, where she helped lead the Next Generation Infrastructure Laboratory since August 2008. She also is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University. King holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a disruptive new normal for everyone through shelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines. But for the billions of urban poor, these guidelines aren’t just burdensome; they’re essentially impossible.
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16 April, 2020
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