Priyanka deSouza is an assistant professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Colorado Denver. She has a PhD in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT, an MSc in Environmental Change and Management and an MBA from the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Bachelor and Master of Technology in Energy Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Priyanka has also served as a consultant for UN Environment and the WHO.