Geeta Rao Gupta

Female, Person

1956 –

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Who is Geeta Rao Gupta?

Geeta Rao Gupta is a leader on gender, women’s issues, and HIV and AIDS. She is frequently consulted on issues related to AIDS prevention and women’s vulnerability to HIV and is an advocate for women’s economic and social empowerment to fight disease, poverty and hunger. Rao Gupta is former president of the International Center for Research on Women. She began working with ICRW in 1988 as a consultant, researcher, and officer, and headed the private, non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. from 1997 through April 2010. She stepped down to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a senior fellow. Currently she serves as Deputy Executive Director for UNICEF and the Vice Chair of the Board for the GAVI Alliance. She was appointed to this position by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 18 April 2011.

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Born
1956
Mumbai
Education
  • University of Delhi
  • Bangalore University
Employment
  • Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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