Vinaya Padmanabhan is a senior consultant at Oxford Policy Management, New Delhi, with the urban policy and planning team. She has ten years of experience working on urban issues, including urban social protection, sanitation, and city governance. She previously worked for Transparent Chennai, an action research group focused on providing access to basic services in slums and informal settlements. She has a master’s in development studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and a master’s in contemporary India from the University of Oxford