Dr Deb Upadhyaya

Dr Deb is a professionally trained architect, urban designer and planner, leading delivery of exemplar large scale and complex housing, regeneration, and garden communities’ both in the public and private sector (UK and India), for over 20 years. 

A passionate advocate of sustainable urbanism, delivery of quality places and value creation through collaboration/ design led innovation. He champions inclusion and diversity as the fundamental building blocks of delivering resilient built environments.

He works as a Director at Atkins, a member of SNC-Lavalin group. In a voluntary capacity, he serves as a board director at The Academy of Urbanism, as a Design Council Expert, an external examiner at the Manchester School of Architecture, RTPI General Assembly member and on RTPI Planning, Policy and Research Committee and as a panel member for Sheffield and Greater Cambridgeshire Design Panels.

He coaches-mentors built environment professionals and pursues practice-led research on delivering ‘quality’ and ‘at pace’ in partnership with the built environment sector on ‘sustainable development goals, smart technologies and climate change’.

 A Chartered Town Planner, Chartered Manager, Academician, Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design and a Fellow at The RSA (The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), he has a Doctorate in Philosophy on Changing Paradigms of Evolving City Centers and an Executive MBA from the University of Sheffield. He studied B.Arch (Gold Medalist) at National Institute of Technology, Raipur and M.Arch (Urban Design) at Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad (both in India).