Mitchell Cook

Contact Information


Email: cookm110@newschool.edu


Concentration(s): Cities and Urbanization


Track: Thesis


Bio


Mitchell Cook is a freelance research consultant specializing in issues of urban planning, local governance and international development. Currently, he is working for the Asian Development Bank on a feasibility study of sustainable integrated infrastructure development for the Asian Development Bank. He has consulted for the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (India) and the Observatory on Latin America. In the fall of 2008 Mitchell was a visiting scholar studying urban development strategy and local governance at the National Research Center for the Economy of the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze in Chongqing, China. He has also worked on issues of regional development in Bihar, India with the India China Institute. He holds a M.A. in International Affairs from the New School.

 Publications and Reports

Cook, Mitchell and Michael Cohen (2011) Integrated Infrastructure Development with Sustainability: What is to be Sustained? Final Report for Technical Assistance Study. Manila: Asian Development Bank.

 

Cook, Mitchell (2012) “Municipal Finance and State Performance in the Crisis: The Experience of Brazil and Mexico” in The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America: Impacts and Responses, ed. Cohen, Michael. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming.

 

Cook, Mitchell (2010) Defining India’s Urban Problematic: A Two-Tiered Analysis of Municipal Finance Patterns from 2002-2007. Background Paper. New Delhi: National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.

 

Cook, Mitchell (2010) Managing Municipal Finance in Federal Countries: A Review of Recent Literature. Background Paper for TA-7334 India Municipal Finance Study. Manila: Asian Development Bank.

 

Cook, Mitchell (2010) Toward a Sustainable Urbanism: Globalization, Urban Planning and the New Urban Reality. GPIA Student Working Paper Series 2010-2. New York: Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School.

 



class of 2009

Educational Background

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Level: Ph.D
Field of study: International Development
Completed in: 2015

  • Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School

Level: M.A.
Field of study: International Affairs (Cities and Urbanization)
Completed in: 2009

Work Experience

  • Asian Development Bank

Role: Consultant

  • National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (India)

Role: Consultant

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