Speaker

Senior Program Officer,
Measurement Learning and Evaluation Team,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Priya Nanda is currently a Senior Program Officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at the India Country office in the measurement learning and evaluation team, where she leads a portfolio of research on health systems strengthening and family planning with a focus on gender, social norms, and equity.

Prior to joining the Foundation, she was the Director of the Social and Economic Development group for the International Center for Research on Women’s (ICRW) Asia Regional Office in New Delhi, India from 2006 to 2016. Her expertise includes research, measurement and evaluation of women’s economic empowerment and access to health services, including reproductive and sexual health.

She has had a decade of experience on conceptualizing, designing, and evaluating programs for adolescent girls’ empowerment and was also the Co-Director of the ODI led research consortium on Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence. She has done her BA in economics from the University of Delhi/Delhi School of Economics.