Ben C. Arimah Email & Phone Number

Ben Arimah is the Chief, Global Reports and Trends Unit at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. He is primarily responsible for the UN-Habitat’s Flagship Publication: The World Cities Report. Before joining UN-Habitat in 2006, he taught at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; University of Botswana; National University of Lesotho and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Ben holds a PhD in Housing and Urban Development from the University of Ibadan. His research interests include: urbanization and urban housing in developing countries; human dimensions of global environmental change; and the development geography of Africa. His articles have appeared in: Urban Studies; Land Economics; Environment and Planning A; Journal of Human Development; International Planning Studies; OPEC Review; Habitat International; Journal of Environmental Management; International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology; and African Development Review among others. He coordinated the recently published World Cites Report 2024: Cities and Climate Action: https://unhabitat.org/wcr/

Listed skills include Sustainable Development, Policy Analysis, Sustainability, Qualitative Research, and 31 others.