Full Name
Naresh V Narasimhan
Job Title
Managing Partner & Principal Architect
Company
Venkataramanan Associates (VA)
Speaker Bio
Naresh V. Narasimhan is an architect, urbanist, and creative entrepreneur with over 38 years of experience. He is best known for his leadership at Venkataramanan Associates (VA), an award-winning design consultancy in Bangalore. He understands that creating a long-term vision for the city is a broad discipline by itself, and the path toward sensitive planning needs to be anything but traditional.

His diverse interests significantly influence how he thinks about the city and its pluralities. As co-founder of MOD Foundation — an international collective of urban designers, researchers, and curators — Mr. Narasimhan has earned acclaim for a variety of strategic urban interventions, across all typologies and scales that are self-generated, experimental and innovative. He has also contributed to culturally significant projects in the city, such as the Suchitra Cine Academy and the Bangalore International Centre (BIC), both celebrated as platforms for intellectual activity, cultural enterprise, and innovation. Additionally, he regularly provides advice to government agencies on infrastructure and development projects.

Mr. Narasimhan is a member of the TEDx community and has a broad range of interests including social innovation, knowledge sharing, communication strategies, cinema, art, and popular culture. He channels these interests into supporting a variety of progressive causes for the city.
Naresh V Narasimhan