Ananya Roy

Ananya Roy
Born	22 January 1970 Calcutta, India
Academic background
Alma mater	Mills College University of California, Berkeley
Academic work
Discipline	international development urban studies
Institutions	UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California, Berkeley
Main interests	global urbanism
Notable works	Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

Ananya Roy is a scholar of international development and global urbanism. Born in Calcutta, India (1970), Roy is Professor and Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She has been a professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a Bachelor of Comparative Urban Studies (1992) degree from Mills College, and Master of City Planning (1994) and Doctor of Philosophy (1999) degrees from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley.