Hugo Ribadeau Dumas is a PhD student affiliated to the Centre of Indian and South Asian Studies, Paris (CEIAS-CNRS). He is currently based at the Centre des Sciences Humaines (CSH), in New Delhi. His research work forces on urbanisation and gender in India. He has worked in the past for PRIA, the Aga Khan Foundation, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Altai Consulting and KPMG, across India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.