Dr. Koyeli Sengupta is a developmental pediatrician and Senior Director at Ummeed Child Development Center, a leading not-for-profit organization in the space of developmental disabilities and autism in Mumbai, India.

As a clinician and trainer, Koyeli strives to build capacity in the community to provide evidence-informed, child-directed, family-centered, and comprehensive autism care for children with autism and their families.

Koyeli’s research interests center around creating an evidence base for capacity-building interventions implemented in the Indian context. She firmly believes that interventions need to be rooted in local contexts and research conducted in LMICs amplifies diverse, oft-unheard voices that can influence and benefit a global community.

Koyeli is a member of the Executive Board of the International Developmental Pediatric Association.