Fortune Mangara is a distinguished scholar with a comprehensive academic background in Rural and Urban Planning. He earned his qualification from the University of Zimbabwe, followed by an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the esteemed North-West University. Currently, he serves as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Centre for Disaster Studies, housed within the School of Geo- and Spatial Sciences at North-West University. Dr Mangara's research expertise encompasses a wide spectrum of disciplines within urban planning and disaster studies, focusing on spatial and urban resilience, disaster risk governance, urban disaster risk, social and economic geography, urban policy, urban governance, transport planning and mobility, spatial transformations in African cities, and heritage planning and policy.