Shweta S. Banerjee leads BRAC's work in India, overseeing program quality and strategic growth, forging partnerships with government, CSOs, funders, and managing country office operations. Previously she spent ten years at the World Bank in Washington DC and New Delhi designing investments in rural livelihoods, digital inclusion, and social protection programs. She was part of teams that launched Jeevika in Bihar, the National Rural Livelihoods Mission, and the Andhra Pradesh Rural Poverty Reduction Programs. As CGAP's India representative in Delhi from 2012 - 2014, she worked closely with the Ministry of Rural Development to design digitization of social welfare programs known as Direct Benefit Transfers, and with state governments on conditional cash transfers in remote areas of Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh.

She is a Vanier Doctoral Scholar at the Department of History, University of Toronto. Her thesis "Paper of Gold: Money and Sovereignty in India 1750 - 1935," examines money's production and circulation in relation to state formations over time, with a focus on the Indian rupee. She has studied Social Anthropology at the Universities of Cambridge and Chicago, and History at the University of Delhi. 

Her work and research is based on a deep interest in crafting large-scale public programs, and building durable institutions that alleviate inequity.

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