BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS - New York, USA

DEEPALI KHANNA:
Deepali joined The MasterCard Foundation in June 2010. She has more than 25 years of experience, 10 of which are in the international development sector. Her operational experience has largely been in the context of children and youth programming in South Asia, South East Asia and Eastern and Southern Africa. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was a member of Plan International's senior management team. As Regional Director, her responsibilities included leading, directing and managing Plan's operations in 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa. She is a recipient of the prestigious Medal of Friendship, which was awarded to her by the President of Vietnam for her exemplary work in Vietnam. She has a Masters degree in Development Studies and considers herself to be a seasoned social entrepreneur and innovator.

GEETANJALI MISRA:
Geetanjali Misra is a Co-founder and Executive Director of CREA. Geetanjali has worked at the activist, grant making and policy levels on issues of human rights, gender, sexuality and reproductive health and violence against women. Before joining CREA, she was the Sexuality and Reproductive Health Program Officer at the Ford Foundation. She is the co-founder of SAKHI for South Asian women in New York, a non-profit organization committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. She is on the Board of Directors of Reproductive Health Matters, Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, Women's Dignity Project and Mama Cash, and was President of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) from 2006 - 2008. She has co-edited 'Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and South East Asia', 2005.

IRIS DERBSCH:
Iris Derbsch, is a Director at Deutsche Bank, currently as Risk Manager for Asset Management in Frankfurt, Germany. She has been with Deutsche Bank since 1997 in several positions in New York, USA and holds a Masters Degree in Economics. Iris started her career as Junior Professional Officer for UNDP in the Fiji Islands. She remains interested in and committed to development efforts and continues to support NGOs and charities.

JAC SM KEE:
Jac Sm Kee is Women's Rights Policy Coordinator for the Association of Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme (Malaysia). She leads the Take Back The Tech! campaign, a global campaign that connects violence against women and technology, and coordinates the cross-country EROTICS research project that examines the relationship between sexuality and the internet. She is also Director of Centre for Independent Journalism, Malaysia (CIJ) and co-founder of Knowledge & Rights with Young People through Safer Spaces (KRYSS).

JOY LIDDICOAT:
Joy Liddicoat is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Domain Name Commission Limited and a trustee of the Intersex Trust Aoteoroa, New Zealand. Joy has her own law practice and has worked for many years as an advocate in diverse communities throughout the Asia Pacific region. A New Zealand Human Rights Commissioner from 2002-2010, Joy led the Commission's inquiry into the human rights of transgender people, the first inquiry of its kind by a national human rights institution. In 2011 Joy joined the Association for Progressive Communications to work on a new project, 'Internet rights are human right'. Joy has a Masters of Law from Victoria University, Wellington.

MANAL SALEH:
Manal Saleh is Senior Program Specialist at the Center for Development Services in Egypt. She has been working in the community development field since the year 2001 through a number of local and international non-government organizations; including The Center for Development Services, Pathfinder International, The Social Fund for Development, and The Association for Development and Enhancement of Women. During the period 2005 - 2008, Manal has been a consultant with CREA on the India - Palestine and Egypt Exchange: Creating and Strengthening Links for Community Development and Advocacy for Youth, after which she joined CREA's board of directors. Manal is also a board member at Benaa Association for Development, a grassroots based civil society organization that works on education, women and youth empowerment, and media development in Upper Egypt. Manal obtained her Masters degree in Economics for International Development from the American University in Cairo in 2006.

NANCY ALI:

Nancy Ali is Regional Team Leader, West and Central Africa, JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. Nancy has been working in the field of international health and development for the past twenty years, primarily focusing on enhancing the health and saving the lives of women and families in limited-resource settings. She has worked extensively in the United States, Africa and the Middle East, providing technical assistance on reproductive, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, malaria and cervical cancer prevention initiatives and interventions at both regional and country levels. Currently as Regional Team Leader at JHPIEGO, her responsibilities include leading, directing and managing JHPIEGO's programs in 10 countries in West and Central Africa. She has held several positions at various international health and research organizations including the Population Council, where as a Program Associate, she managed the first U.S. government funded health project designed to improve community-based health services for Palestinian women and children in several villages in the West Bank & Gaza. She also helped coordinate, monitor and facilitate all project-related activities for CREA's India, Palestine and Egypt Exchange Program.

NANDINI OOMMAN:
Nandini Oomman is Senior Associate at the Center for Global Development (CGD, U.S.A.) focussing on global health & development: policy, financing, aid design & delivery, impact. She has worked in India, South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa on issues of HIV/AIDS, population and reproductive health, women's health, social science methods and public health research. She joined CGD in March 2006 as the Director of the HIV/AIDS Monitor. Prior to joining CGD, Nandini worked with the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank's Population, Health & Nutrition Group and consulted with the Packard Foundation as an independent researcher. She has published widely on HIV/AIDS, population and women's health and development issues, including 'Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of Improving Maternal Health: Determinants, Interventions and Challenges' and 'A Review of Population, Reproductive Health, and Adolescent Health & Development in Poverty Reduction Strategies', both for the World Bank.

ROMITA SHETTY:
Romita Shetty is President of DA Capital Asia, an investment management company and is based in Singapore. She has a long career in finance and investing having worked at Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Standard and Poor's and RBS Greenwich Capital. Romita has had a long involvement with women's rights and human rights and is a co-founder of SAKHI for South Asian Women, a New York based non-profit organization committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. She is also on the advisory board of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and on the executive committee of South Asian American Forum (SAAF), a political action committee focused on policy issues of importance to South Asian Americans. Romita has a degree in International Affairs with a specialization in International Finance from Columbia University and a Bachelors degree in History from St. Stephen's College.