Gangadhar Jha was on the faculty of Centre for Urban Studies of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, and the Professor at the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi. He has been Economic Advisor to the first Delhi Finance Commission, Government of the National Territory of Delhi. He has also worked as Coordinator of the Indo-USAID collaborative FIRE-D Project at NIUA from 1996 to 2002. Dr. Jha has extensively written on urban governance, municipal finance, institutional strengthening, capacity development and training. He has worked on these issues in Sri Lanka, Iraq, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nepal, Kenya besides India, on projects supported by multilateral, and bilateral funding agencies such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, City Development Initiative for Asia, DFID (the UK), JBIC (Japan), CIDA (Canada) and USAID (USA)