Fizzah Sajjad is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS. Her research focuses on questions of land, housing, transport and the politics of infrastructure development in rapidly urbanizing cities of the Global South.
Fizzah holds a PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Masters in City Planning from MIT. Her work has been published in leading journals including Antipode and Environment & Planning D, and she has co-edited the volume "Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan" (UCL Press, 2025). Fizzah also contributes to public scholarship through media outlets such as Dawn, Himal South Asia, and Jamhoor
Most recently, she was Co-Investigator on the project ‘Navigating the grid in the ‘world-class city: poverty, gender and access to services in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka,’ under the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) GCRF ‘(Re)Thinking the Off-Grid City’ programme. This work examined how the urban poor access basic services in South Asian cities. The Pakistan sub-project more specifically explored peri-urban expansion in the city of Lahore, focusing on transformations and service provision challenges in formerly rural ‘urban villages’ that are now surrounded and encircled by suburban residential real estate projects.