Nidhi Subramanyam is assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Her ongoing research focuses on urban sustainability, with a focus on urban environmental governance, just water-sanitation infrastructure planning, and the politics of sustainability metrics and urban benchmarking in rapidly urbanizing small city geographies of the Global South. Subramanyam’s previous work on urban water governance, climate change adaptation, land dispossession, and rural-urban transitions has appeared in the journals Environment and Planning C: Politics & Space, Water International, and Water Policy. Subramanyam received a Master of Regional Planning (2014) from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Architecture (2010) from the University of Mumbai.