Sumeeta Banerji

Assistant Country Director and Head, Democratic Governance Program, UNDP India

Sumeeta is Assistant Country Director and Head, Democratic Governance Program at the UNDP in India. She handles a portfolio of programmes providing technical assistance and policy advice to key Government of India Ministries and State Governments on a wide range of governance themes including public administration, access to justice, and capacity development for local governance and decentralized planning, human development, and rights based social security interventions. Prior to joining the UN in India, Sumeeta spent several years with the Canadian International Development Agency. Sumeeta is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s India Leadership Initiative.