Pari Jhaveri

Pari comes with 20-plus years of experience across Executive Search, Human Resources, Media and Advertising, FMCG, and Education domains. She started her career with Ogilvy Advertising where she set up the country’s first brand social responsibility business practice. Subsequently, Pari founded the search firm Third Sector Partners. She has been a board member and served on boards of innovative nonprofits and social enterprises. She also co-founded Katalyst, an initiative that prepares young women from disadvantaged backgrounds for leadership roles, thereby creating a wider talent pool for India Inc. Pari has previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Sesame Workshop, India. Currently, Pari leads ‘Purpose Leaders’ a bespoke leadership executive-life coaching and C-suite and Boards search and counseling with a presence in key mature and emerging markets. She is a performing arts enthusiast trained in theatre and classical music. She has served on the juries of film festivals and other such forums, and her work reflects a creative amalgamation of arts, culture, business, creative leadership, and innovation. She holds an M.A. in International Relations and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Boston, USA. She has B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology, social sciences, and non-profit and business management from the University of Mumbai, India.

Preeta Lall

Preeta is a development professional with 30 years of experience encompassing grassroots institution building, provisioning technical assistance to national and subnational governments, and shaping and managing bilateral assistance in the governance sector. She is currently a consultant to a range of subnational initiatives in India aimed at strengthening localisation of SDGs. She led the secretariat of Local Governance Initiative and Network (LOGIN), a multi-stakeholder Asian network that facilitated peer learning on good governance, conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and citizenship, from 2013-2021. Preeta was also a Senior Thematic Advisor at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in India. During her time at SDC, THP India received multi-year grants. She holds a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from Sriram College of Commerce (SRCC), New Delhi, and has earned an M.A. in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management, Gujarat, India.

N.K.Malhotra

Mr. Malhotra was a former staff at THP India and has served as the Director of Administration for over 17 years. He has over 45 years of experience in administration and personnel management in the government and the development sector. He holds an M.A. in Management from Birmingham University, UK.

Krishna Menon

Krishna Menon is a Professor of Gender Studies, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. She is the former Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She has published books and papers on feminist theory and politics, debates within political theory, and issues in Indian politics. Her analyses of social movements in India and commentaries on feminism, women’s rights, and democracy draw on diverse sources of knowledge and expression. She has taught at the Department of Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi.

Kaadambari

Kaadambari is a legal professional with 20+ yrs. of expertise. She is the Managing Partner at UCOL (Advocates and Consultants), a law firm with a pan-India presence. An advocate at the Delhi High Court, her practice traverses a diverse spectrum of litigation practice covering all aspects of disputes from corporate to commercial, civil, and criminal including arbitrations and mediations. She is currently Standing Counsel for the National Highway Authority of India, and Senior Counsel with the Ministry of Law & Justice (Union of India), amongst many others. She serves as the Secretary General of two NGOs namely Women in Law & Litigation (WILL) and AOL Foundation. In 2021, she was honoured by the India Forbes “Legal Powerlist 2020” as one of India’s Top Individual Lawyers for Excellence in Law. She has co-authored two books namely “Tis Hazari Nama” (2016) and “50 Years of Justice: Delhi High Court” (2017). She is an alumna of the Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi, and the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.

Debarpita Banerjee

Debarpita has 25 years of experience across diverse sectors in advertising and marketing and is an evangelist for Women in Leadership positions in the sector. She launched and hosted fireside chats under the umbrella of “She Can She will”- an initiative to inspire and ignite middle-level women to reach leadership positions. She is currently the CEO, FCB India & Fuel Content India. In the past, she has worked with iconic brands like India Today, Coca-Cola, Horlicks, National Geographic, Google, Vistara, Dominos’, Uber, to name a few. Debarpita is a St. Xavier’s College graduate with a post-graduation in Mass Communication and an Executive Education Program in Business and Management from the Columbia Business School, New York. Passionate about travel and exploration and fascinated with technology, she recently launched an app- MadMaps, that will help travellers make hyperlocal discoveries easily.

Ayush Chauhan

Ayush is one of the co-founders of Quicksand, a multi-disciplinary design and innovation consultancy working at the intersection of business, development, and culture in India. He promotes design for social development by connecting the best practices of design with development programmes to address the pressing and complex issues of social equity, public health, and education. He is also part of the Board of Directors at the William J. Clinton Foundation in India. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is a recipient of the prestigious Yale World Fellowship in 2012. An avid triathlete in the past, Ayush firmly believes in its potential to move humanity forward. Ayush is also a fitness enthusiast but in constant battle with the inner foodie.

Ruchi Yadav

Ruchi leads strategic management, programme design, policy and operations at THP India. She also supervises the capacity building and MEL teams in the organisation. While at THP, she has mentored over 60 grassroots CBOs across multiple states on issues of women’s political leadership, adolescent girls’ empowerment, social justice, and local governance. Most recently, she has engaged with multiple stakeholders in Asia on advancing women’s political participation in local government institutions. Prior to joining THP India, she worked on women’s rights and human rights issues in South Asia and South East Asia, with a short stint in advertising early in her career. She is vitally interested in the intersections of gender with politics, religion, caste, and class. Ruchi holds an MA in International Development from the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC. In 2012, she was awarded the Yale World Fellowship.

Paritosh Sasmal

Paritosh oversees finance, accounts and audits. Financial compliance of all grants and partners’ budgets are also monitored by him. He has over 18 years of experience in finance management of NGOs. He holds a BA of Commerce degree from Vidyasagar College, West Bengal.

Darshan Surendranath

Darshan oversees programme implementation in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha. Darshan has a background in child rights, volunteering, and the corporate sector. He holds an MA in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, Maharashtra.

Ganga Gupta

Ganga is a master trainer with THP and has been conducting training workshops across THPs programme intervention areas since 2005. She has an excellent command over training skills, participatory methodology and has a deep understanding of issues related to gender, governance, women’s rights and women’s political leadership in rural India. She is also invested in empowering adolescent girls and conducts trainings on life skills, leadership and citizenship for them. She has over 30 years of grassroots experience in the rural development sector and brings invaluable insights to programmes. She holds a BA in Humanities from the University of Rajasthan.

Veda Bharadwaja

Veda joined THP India in 2010. She anchors THP India’s advocacy strategy as well as the adolescent girls’ portfolio. She also oversees programme implementation in Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. Veda has worked on women’s economic, social and cultural rights and strongly believes in the human rights framework to advocate for women’s political rights. Veda holds an MA in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) and an MA in Governance, Development and Public Policy from the Institute of Development Studies (UK).

Surbhi Mahajan

Surbhi joined THP India in 2018 in the capacity of communications officer overseeing all six states. She has an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex), and an M.Phil/MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) in Modern History. She is also a volunteer member at Make Every Woman Count, a London based women-led organisation working on African women’s rights. Prior to this, she worked as a programme officer at the Women’s Fund Asia. Her interests include understanding discourses around gender, social justice, and the utility of visual representation in documenting change narratives.

Bharani Sundararajan

Bharani is the grants administrator of THP India partner organisations. She supports budget development processes and coordinates with partners on compliance and financial reporting. Additionally, she manages the Country Director’s office in Delhi. She holds a Diploma in Computer Science and Engineering from Pallavan College, Tamil Nadu.

Seereen Akhtar Choudhury

Seereen joined THP India as Research and Data Associate in 2023. Before this, she was a core member of the team that developed the open educational resource platform called VIKALP, which aids in digital learning, in association with HCL Foundation and the government of Uttar Pradesh. She has also worked across thematic areas of gender, education, livelihood and skill development. She has an M.A. in Sociology and Social anthropology from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Her broader interest lies in understanding gender and sexuality, feminist discourse, kinship and political sociology.

Amit Goyal

Shiw Shankar Mahato

Shiw is responsible for book-keeping and voucher scrutiny, while also assisting in filing tax returns and Statutory reports. He holds a BA degree in Commerce from Ranchi University, Jharkhand.

Nidhi Kumari

Nidhi is responsible for travel bookings and also handles administrative duties. She has been with The Hunger Project since March 2007. Nidhi holds BA degree in Science from Magadh University, Bihar.

Naveen Verma

Noveen joined THP India in February 2022 and is responsible for routine accounting work such as verifying the vendor bills/vouchers, payments processing, staff travel settlement, support in the preparation of monthly and periodic financial reports, to name a few. Prior to joining THP, he worked with Netherlands Leprosy Relief India, Digital Empowerment Foundation and Deepalaya. Naveen holds over 14 years of experience in the development sector. He has a B.A. in Personal Management.