Kavita N. Ramdas
President & CEO
Global Fund for Women
222 Sutter Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94108

Phone: (415) 248-4800

KAVITA RAMDAS, President and Chief Executive Officer, Global Fund for Women

BIOGRAPHY
Kavita N. Ramdas has served as president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women since 1996. She has dedicated herself to empowering women worldwide with the financial resources to increase girls’ access to education, defend women’s right to health and reproductive rights, prevent violence against women and advance women’s political participation, as well as other vital issues. Kavita has served on the boards of the Women’s Funding Network, the Women’s Rights Prize of the Gruber Foundation and the Ethical Globalization Initiative. She is the recipient of numerous philanthropic and leadership awards, including most recently, the Haridas and Bina Chaudhuri Award for Distinguished Service presented by the California Institute of Integrated Studies (CIIS). Kavita recently joined the Global Development Advisory Panel of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Advisory Panel of the Asian University for Women and the board of trustees of Princeton University.

Websites:
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/