Kittima Leeruttanawisut

Kittima Leeruttanawisut is a Local Strategic Advisor for the Global Future Cities Programme for UN-Habitat in Bangkok. She was a deputy director of AIM (Assistance in Implementation and Management Housing, Heritage and Climate Change for Urban Development), a consulting firm which gives consulting services, training and research on Housing, Heritage and Climate Change for Urban Development and a research fellow at Land Governance Laboratory in USA.

She has a background in urban planning, environmental management, climate change adaptation, heritage management and land strategic planning for eighteen years. Her major interested are land management, planning, housing, poverty alleviation, climate change, heritage management and future of the cities. She got her 2 Master degrees from Chulalongkorn University on Regional Planning and from Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on Urban Management. She gained her Doctoral degree from Faculty of Urban Science at Meijo University in Japan in 2018. Her dissertation focuses on the second generation of urban poor in Thailand.

Recently, she is working on ithe Global Future Cities Programme for UN-Habitat in Bangkok which 3 interventions namely 1)Integrated Data Hub, 2) Flood Management Decision Support System for Bangkok, and 3 Transit Oriented Development Programme for Khlong Bang Luang.