Sujata S. Govada
CEO and Managing Director
AICP, HKIP, HKIUD, LEED® AP, Assoc. AIA
Registered Architect, Council of Architecture (India)
Global Trustee, ULI and Past President AIA Hong Kong
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Architecture, CUHK
Dr Sujata S. Govada is the CEO and Managing Director of UDP International. She is an award-winning and reputed urban designer and certified town planner with over 30 years of diverse international experience in Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, US and India working on a diverse range of urban design and planning projects. Dr. Govada’s work has been recognized for being very innovative, influential, and instrumental in increasing awareness on sustainable development and shaping liveable and walkable cities in the region. Dr. Govada has been based in Hong Kong for over twenty five years, with diverse experience working for both public and private sector clients, including the Hong Kong Government, property developers and various organizations in Hong Kong, India and the Philippines. Dr. Govada received over 15 major urban design and planning awards. Some of these include the HBF’s Harbourfront Connectivity Study, Peel Street Graham Street Alternative Proposal and Designing Hong Kong’s Central Harbourfront Master Plan “Central Harbourfront Promenade – “Emerald Necklace”, a joint submission with RTKL, and IT Park Master Plan for a SEZ development in India with ERM. Some of her current and recent projects include, Clark Green City Master Plan in the Philippines, Naya Dharavi, slum regeneration in Mumbai, India, a new Science and Technology University campus plan and mixed use development concept master plans, as well as ULI’s 10 Principles for Sustainable Development of Metro Manila’s New Urban Core in the Philippines as well as the ULI 10 Principles for Sustainable Approach to New Development in Hong Kong. More recent projects include Kai Tak Sports Park in Hong Kong, Urban Design and Architectural Guidelines for Amaravati, a new capital city in AP, India, several master planning projects in the Philippines, Planning Applications and Visual Impact Assessments, Adaptive Reuse, Feasibility Studies, and Urban Integration for Mass Transit projects.
As an Adjunct Associate Professor at CUHK, Dr. Govada is currently involved in teaching for the MSc program in Urban Design that she helped start. Prior to this she was a Part Time Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong, having taught in the masters programs in Urban Planning and Urban Design at the Department of Urban Planning and Design. Dr. Govada is the past Vice Chair (Special Projects), International Division of the American Planning Association. She was the 2015 President of the Hong Kong Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and a Global Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Executive Committee Member of ULI North Asia and Hong Kong. Dr. Govada was a member of the Harbourfront Commission for several years. She is the past Vice President (International Relations) and founding Vice President and Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design (HKIUD) that she was instrumental in setting up, a full member of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners, and Registered Architect with the Council of Architecture in India.