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Indian American Geeta Rao chosen for UN Children's fund
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Friday, 20 May 2011, 00:24 IST |
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Bangalore: It's raining success for the Mumbai born, Geeta Rao Gupta, as she has been elected as the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund.
Geeta Rao was born in 1956, and spent most of her childhood in Mumbai, Delhi and other cities in India. Much information is not provided on her schooling. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Bangalore University, an M. Phil in organizational behavior from the University of Delhi, Masters in Clinical Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Delhi.
While pursuing her advanced degrees in Social Psychology. Geeta worked as a counselor at a drop-in center in New Delhi and lectured in the psychology departments of several universities. Further, Geeta also worked at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences with a team to develop the first women's studies curriculum for graduate students in India.
Geeta Rao moved to the U.S. and began working at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) in 1988. At ICRW, Geeta Rao played various roles of a Consultant, Researcher and a Vice-President. She also headed a ground-breaking, 15-country research program that identified the social and economic roots of women's vulnerability to HIV infection following post as a president at ICRW.
Currently, Geeta Rao is a Senior adviser to the global development arm of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Geeta Rao's expertise is in gender mainstreaming, women's health, HIV and AIDS, women's economic empowerment, private sector roles in development, strategies to empower women and advance gender equality, and women and poverty.
Geeta Rao will serve under relatively new UNICEF director Anthony Lake, a prominent expert on foreign policy perhaps best known as President Clinton's National Security Adviser. Geeta Rao will succeed Saad Houry.