Imran Muhammad is a Professor of Transport and Urban Planning at Massey University, New Zealand. His research and professional focus is on Future Cities—urban environments that are environmentally sustainable, socially just, economically resilient, and institutionally decolonised. His work offers a detailed understanding of institutional barriers and opportunities in sustainable transport, highlighting the importance of governance, the history–politics nexus, and discourse in infrastructure decision-making in South Asian cities. He is the author of two books: Moving the Masses: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Policies in Low-Income Asian Cities (Springer, 2019) and Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Urban Transport in Pakistan (Oxford University Press, 2010). His multidisciplinary research has been published in leading journals across urban planning (e.g. International Planning Studies, Cities, Urban Policy and Research), transport (e.g. Transportation Research Part D, Case Studies in Transport Policy, Journal of Public Transportation), development (e.g. International Development Planning Review, Development in Practice), geography (New Zealand Geographer), and environmental studies (Natural Hazards, Energy Research & Social Science, Disaster Risk Reduction). He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a Master’s in Urban Planning from the University of Hong Kong, where he studied as an Asian Development Bank (ADB) Scholar.