Bishwapriya Sanyal  Ph.D. Urban Planning, 1984  Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.     Bishwapria "Bish" Sanyal is an author and editor of four books and numerous articles on development planning. He served as the department head for the Department of Urban Studies at MIT from 1996-2002. He has also served as a consultant to the national governments of eight countries and major international institutions including the World Bank, Interational Labour Organization (ILO), USAID, and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS). He is currently working on a book on comparative planning culture and another on unions of informal workers in India. Other projects include formation Learning Alliance, a collaboration of nine planning programs around the world dedicated to urban housing issues in developing countries. Other interests include research on planning education after Sept. 11. Prof. Sanyal says he was drawn to UCLA for its program in international development.  "The main strength of the UCLA program was the interesting faculty who contributed to serious critical thinking in the field of urban and regional planning. It was one of the first planning schools to offer courses on globalization, alternative development theories, narrative planning theory, space and politics, gender bias and so on."

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