A native of New Delhi, he studied architecture in Ahmedabad, and was the founding Architect-in-Charge of the Rural Habitat Development Program in Gujarat with the Aga Khan Development Network.  He was co-recipient of a grant to design and teach a new interdisciplinary course at the University of Michigan entitled “Altered Encounters:  Global Change and Asian Cities.”  More recently, he was the lead consultant for designing a curriculum on urbanism for the Indian Institute of Human Settlements in Bengaluru, India.

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He is the author of the chapter, Tensions Manifested: Reading the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi, and co-author of the epilogue in the book, The Emerging Asian City:  Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms. He also the author of the book, Planning for the Unplanned:  Recovering from Crises in Megacities, a comparative analysis of successful city rebuilding in Los Angeles, Mexico City, and New York.  His other scholarly publications include the award-winning article Meaningful Urban Design: Catalytic/Teleological/Relevant published in the Journal of Urban Design, and Navigating Ambiguity:  Comedy Improvisation as a Tool for Urban Design Pedagogy, published in the Journal for Education in the Built Environment.  His research on the design and future of cities has been funded by the American Planning Association and the Mineta Transportation Institute, and received national awards from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the SOM Foundation, and the California Planning Foundation.

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Professionally, Inam has worked as an architect, urban designer, city planner, and design strategist in Canada, France, Greece, Haiti, India, and the United States.  He was the Director of Design for the Plan for the Future of Santorini:  Building the Cultural Center of the Eastern Mediterranean in Greece, and a member of the team invited by the Government of Haiti to design a housing rebuilding strategy for the country following the devastating earthquake of January 2010.  From 2005 to 2008, he was a project leader in urbanism at the award-winning firm, Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, in Los Angeles, where he led projects in California, the Caribbean, Idaho, and on the U.S.-Mexico border. 

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Inam has a master’s degree in architecture from the Ecole d’Architecture Paris Belleville, a master’s degree in urban design from Washington University in St. Louis, and a doctoral degree in city planning from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Architecture Boston, the leading professional magazine in architecture and urbanism for the New England region of the United States.