1. Kavita Nandini Ramdas was born on 1963 and is an American feminist and activist.
11 Facts About Kavita Ramdas
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Kavita Ramdas assumed the position in 2015 after serving for 3 years as Ford's India country representative, representing the office in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
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Kavita Ramdas is the daughter of Lalita Ramdas and Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas, former Head of the Indian Navy.
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Kavita Ramdas was born in Delhi, India and grew up in Mumbai, Delhi, London, Rangoon, and Bonn.
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Kavita Ramdas attended high school at the Nikolaus Cusanus Gymnasium in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany; the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, and graduated from Springdales School, New Delhi, in 1980.
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Kavita Ramdas studied political science at Hindu College, University of Delhi for two years until 1982.
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In 1990, Kavita Ramdas married Zulfiqar Ahmad, a peace advocate, whom she had met in college.
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Kavita Ramdas is a member of the Henry Crown Fellow's Program of the Aspen Institute and previously served as a board member for the Women's Funding Network.
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Kavita Ramdas was the President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women from 1996 until 2010.
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Kavita Ramdas oversaw the Global Fund for Women's first endowment campaign and the creation of the Now or Never Fund to ensure women's participation on critical international issues.
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In 2018, Kavita Ramdas was named director of Women's Rights Programs for the Open Society Foundations.