Keya Kunte

Postgraduate Researcher, University College London, United Kingdom

Keya Kunte is a Postgraduate Researcher in the Regional Futures project and was a Facilitator of the Mobile Workshop “Affordable habitat” at the 4th Holcim Forum “Economy of Sustainable Construction” in Mumbai, India.

Last updated: July 09, 2024 London, United Kingdom

She is an urban planner and architect, by training. She has worked for over 10 years with different non-profit organizations, in India, on various development initiatives, collaborative research, advocacy and institutional strengthening.

Keya Kunte

Keya Kunte, Postgraduate Researcher, University College London, United Kingdom. Image courtesy Regional Futures.

Much of her work has focused on supporting communities to access knowledge, tenure security and better housing & sanitation, through participatory settlement mapping, digital inclusion initiatives, community-led upgrading & resettlement strategies, and examining the outcomes of national missions and sub-national implementation.

She was previously an architecture and urban planning consultant the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), based in Mumbai, India. SPARC is one of the largest Indian NGOs working on housing and infrastructure issues for the urban poor, principally through its support of the National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF) and Mahila Milan (MM). It was founded by Sheela Patel in 1984.

Keya Kunte obtained a Bachelor of Architecture (2005) from the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), School of Architecture, Ahmedabad, India and a Master of City Planning (2008), Urban Design Concentration, City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, USA.