Jyoti Hosagrahar
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, WHC
Mrs. Jyoti Hosagrahar is the Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre at UNESCO.
Among her responsibilities, she leads the implementation of various programs including the 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, the World Heritage Cities Programme, Climate Change Focal Point for the Culture Sector, World Heritage and Sustainable Development, the Modern Heritage Programme, management of sponsored projects related to World Heritage and the International Assistance Programme of the World Heritage Fund. She also leads the programme on the development and implementation of the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators, Thematic Indicators for Culture in the Sustainable Development Goals. From May 2016 to November 2018, she served as the Director of the Division for Creativity at UNESCO including the Intangible Heritage Convention, the Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and the Creative City Network.
Prior to joining UNESCO, she was a professor and Director of the SUI Lab at GSAPP, Columbia University, New York; UNESCO Chair in Culture, Habitat, and Sustainable Development at Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore, India where she was also Chair of the Ph.D. program; and Founder-Director of Sustainable Urbanism International (SUI), an NGO in Bangalore, India. She has a Ph. D in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of California, Berkeley.