Sahil Kanekar

Senior Program Associate - Urban Planning

Bio

Sahil is a Senior Program Associate, Urban Development and Resilience with the Sustainable Cities and Transport program at WRI India. Here, his work revolves around environment and infrastructural development with a focus on green-blue infrastructure, nature-based solutions towards flood risk management and strategic planning for long term climate resilience. He deals with multi-scalar integrated approach by applying global and local knowledge and facilitating multiple stakeholders.

Prior to joining WRI India, Sahil worked on the Dutch and Bangladesh Delta Plan, along with developing an Integrated River Management strategy for the rivers in the Netherlands. He has also worked on projects with a focus on port development and water sensitive urban design in collaboration with Rotterdam municipality. Further, he was involved in infrastructure projects like long term strategies for the freight corridor between Rotterdam and Duisburg and Multi-Modal Integration projects for Mumbai Metro.

Sahil earned his undergraduate degree in architecture from Academy of Architecture, Mumbai University. He has a master’s in Urbanism from Delft University of Technology with a specialization in Infrastructure and Environmental Design. Sahil is a member of Water Youth Network.

Blog Posts

Walking along the Mithi River: Exploring a 17 km long trained river and its riverine ecosystem
by Sahil Kanekar, Kartiki Naik and Abhijit Waghre - August 17, 2022
This three-part blog series examines one of the many systems Mumbai relies on during the monsoons. The first photo essay, in the series, is a description of a walk along the Mithi river, illustrating the condition of riverbanks and challenges in maintaining the river as a flood mitigation measure.

Mumbai’s perennial struggle with routine waterlogging and catastrophic floods is

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