Geeta Rao Gupta

Geeta Rao Gupta is a leader on gender, womens issues, and HIVAIDS. She is frequently consulted on issues related to AIDS prevention and womens vulnerability to HIV and is an advocate for womens 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, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. from 1997 through April 2010. She stepped down to join the Bill amp 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 SecretaryGeneral Ban Kimoon onApril 2011.

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