Meera is a Professor Emerita at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and executive director of its Centre of Water and Sanitation (C-WAS). She has more than 40 years of experience in water and sanitation, urban development, and infrastructure finance. Meera has worked with the World Bank and its water and sanitation programme in Africa. She was previously on the board of the Global Water Partnership (GWP), a Stockholm-based inter-governmental organisation and is currently on the board of the Dutch INGO IRC.