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Ananya Roy

Roy is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare and inaugural director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. She holds The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy. Previously she was on the faculty at Berkeley, where she founded and played a leadership role in several academic programs, centers, and divisions including Urban Studies, Global Metropolitan Studies, International and Area Studies, Blum Center for Developing Economies, and Global Poverty and Practice. At Berkeley, Roy held the Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice and prior to that, the Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. She has a B.A. (1992) in comparative urban studies from Mills College and an M.C.P. (1994) and Ph.D. (1999) from the Department of City and Regional Planning at Berkeley.