Banashree Banerjee is an architect, urban planner, researcher and teacher. She works as an independent consultant and as Senior Housing and Urban Management Expert at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) Rotterdam.  In a career spanning more than four decades, the focus of her work has been on urban poverty and informality, affordable housing, inclusive and participatory planning and urban land management. 

Banashree has worked with government, NGOs and international agencies, primarily in India, Egypt, Korea, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and the Netherlands. She has several publications to her credit and has lectured extensively at universities in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Banashree has undertaken prestigious international assignments, for example, member of the International Expert Group on Land and Housing of UN-HABITAT.