Dr Naison Mutizwa-Mangiza

Naison Mutizwa-Mangiza is Chief of the Policy Analysis Branch of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). The Branch is responsible for preparing the UN Global Report on Human Settlements, of which Naison is the Chief Editor. The report is published every two years and is the UN’s most authoritative global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends. A Zimbabwean national, Naison holds an MA in Geography and a PhD in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge, UK. Before joining UN-HABITAT in 1991, he was a professor in the Department of Rural and Urban Planning at the University of Zimbabwe.