Sudeshna Chatterjee, founding partner and advisor at Kaimal Chatterjee & Associates, is an internationally regarded urban designer and researcher.
Sudeshna has special expertise in designing children’s environments. Sudeshna is also a globally acknowledge thought leader on child friendly cities. A firm believer in evidence based design, Sudeshna engages in action research involving children and adolescents to generate knowledge and evidence on child friendly cities and communities. She also often uses participatory design techniques in her architectural and planning work.
Given Sudeshna’s special expertise and passion for making living environments child friendly particularly for vulnerable children, KCA incubated the non-profit organization Action for Children’s Environments (ACE) to engage in research, advocacy, planning and design to improve children’s environments globally. Sudeshna serves as the CEO of ACE and has successfully led many evidence-based projects globally for improving children’s living conditions.