Fizza has nearly ten years of experience working in the built environment, connecting climate and carbon finance with low carbon infrastructure, resilient cities and inclusive regional development. She began her career as an architect in Pakistan, graduating summa cum laude from NED University, and later obtained a double MSc in International Cooperation in Urban Development from TU Darmstadt with a specialisation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture from UIC Barcelona through the Mundus Urbano consortium.

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At UrbanEmerge she delivers research, strategy and advisory work on climate finance, municipal and infrastructure finance and just urban transitions for public, private and civil society clients. Her previous assignments include a synthesis review of market based approaches in climate finance for the Green Climate Fund, a landscape review for the UK FCDO Frontier Technologies Hub on how public climate finance can leverage private investment in early stage innovation in low income countries and an evidence review and strategic advisory work on climate finance needs and barriers in Pakistan for FCDO, as well as support to European cities on energy poverty and to GIZ on urban resilience, climate finance mechanisms and gender responsive municipal finance.

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Fizza is currently affiliated with the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability where she contributes to the ERC funded IMBRACE project on embracing immigrant knowledges for just climate health adaptation. In this role she examines how climate change, health and migration intersect for majority world immigrants in European cities and how situated knowledges and everyday practices can inform more just and effective urban climate adaptation, building on a wider portfolio that includes climate finance for early stage innovations, digital solutions for early warning systems and citizen sovereignty and digital democracy in the pandemic smart city.

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