Ashima Krishna is an architect, historic preservation planner, urban planner, and educator. Her research focuses on three broad areas related to cultural heritage and its preservation: the management of historic urban landscapes in developing countries like India, issues in adaptively reusing religious historic structures and landscapes, and contemporary problems with world heritage sites in the developing world. Over the years, she has worked on various projects dealing with architectural and landscape design, architectural and urban conservation, interior design, urban development, and adaptive reuse. Her principal interests remain in the preservation and conservation of built heritage and how they interface with issues of management and local governance, and especially how the management of heritage affects the way in which planners and architects shape the built environment.She has a B.Arch from the School of Planning and Architecture (New Delhi, India), and an MA and PhD from Cornell University in Historic Preservation Planning.