Shubhagato Dasgupta is a Senior Fellow at CPR and Director of the Scaling City Institutions for India (Sci-Fi) sanitation initiative. His current research focuses on drinking water and sanitation, urban private and public finance, housing and slum rehabilitation, and urban environmental infrastructure planning. He has also worked on issues of urban development with public, private, multilateral, and non-governmental organisations, including the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), and the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO).