Kavita Ramdas
Kavita Ramdas
Kavita Ramdas is the India country representative for the Ford Foundation, a position she assumed in 2012. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of the Program on Social Entrepreneurship at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She is the former President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionEducator
CountryIndia
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With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.
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I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.
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It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.