Indrajit Banerjee (10 November 1964 – 25 January 2019) was an author on media and communication and the director of the Knowledge Societies Division at UNESCO.

His early schooling was completed at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, where he left with a BA in Arts and Sciences in 1985.

He then moved to Paris, France, where he completed a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies by 1990, followed by a PhD in communication and in didactics from the Sorbonne University in 1994.

[1] In 1995, Banerjee moved to Montreal, Canada, where he worked for a year at Université du Québec as a post-doctoral research fellow in communication and media.

[1][2] As director, Banerjee's work was geared towards improving freedom of expression, access to information and education, and other themes aligned to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.