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The Consortium for Development Policy Research in collaboration with the International Growth Centre (IGC) held a session of Lahore Policy Exchange on Lahore Futures. The session was held on Friday, 12th June from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM at 19A FCC, Maratab Ali Road, Gulberg IV, Lahore.

The focus of this talk was to encourage a discussion on agenda setting for the future of Lahore, the issues concerning its development and its heritage. To highlight these issues and the subsequent information regarding them, the talk emphasised on using past trends to predict Lahores’s future.

This was the first in a series of sessions focused on Lahore and it served as a scoping activity in identifying what other issues and aspects of Lahore’s future should be discussed in the upcoming sessions.

The panel consisted of: 

Ijaz Nabi (Executive Director CDPR, Country Head IGC) – Opening Remarks 

Sanval Nasim (Assistant Professor, Colby College) – Moderator 

Speakers: 

Mohammad Omar Masud (CEO, Urban Unit) 

Imrana Tiwana (Architect and Urban Specialist)

Kamil Khan Mumtaz (Architect) 

Qudsia Rahim (Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Lahore Biennale Foundation) 

Omar Hassan (Architect)

Watch full session:

Interview videos:

  1. Imrana Tiwana 
  2. Qudsia Rahim
  3. Omar Hassan
  4. Kamil Khan Mumtaz 

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