Dr. Rajini R. Menon

As a Senior Officer for Strategic Partnerships in India, Rajini is responsible for co-designing and implementing Girls Not Brides strategy in India. She will provide support and collaboration for prioritized State partnerships/coalitions in India, contributing to national-level processes. In her role, she is the lead for designing gender transformative strategy for Girls Not Brides in the Asia region.

Rajini is a gender practitioner with 14+ years of experience with thinktanks and development sector organisations. She was the National Program Coordinator of the Girls’ Education and Gender Equality Program of Room to Read India. Prior to that, she was the South Asia Regional Gender Coordinator in Oxfam India. Before joining Oxfam, she held the position of heading Gender Training Institute of Centre for Social Research, Delhi. She has also worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Human Development, Delhi and Kerala Research Project for Local Level Development, Kerala. Rajini has worked extensively with coalitions/alliances on gender issues. She is the expert committee member of Indira Gandhi National Open University School of Gender Studies and the governing body member of Women Power Connect. She has several publications to her credit.

Rajini holds a Ph.D in Development Economics.

Rajini lives in New Delhi, India and she speaks her native language (Malayalam), English and Hindi.