Gitanjali Pande

Biography

Gitanjali Pande is the Director of the OPM office in Delhi, India. With over 10 years of work experience she has completed assignments covering a range of development issues that often have gender as a cross-cutting theme. Most of these assignments have focused on South Asia, covering issues such as women’s education, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and safe livelihoods. For this work, Ms Pande conducted situational analyses, rapid assessments, monitoring and evaluation of programs with a gender focus, policy analyses, data analyses, survey design, extensive literature reviews, and report writing.

For her doctoral thesis, Ms Pande examined the causes and consequences of early marriage in India, which involved analyzing data from the Indian National Family and Health Survey. For several years, she volunteered as a counselor at a New York City-based anti-domestic violence organization that assists women of South Asian origin. Throughout her career, Ms Pande has remained connected to her Indian roots, professionally and personally.