We equip, mobilize, educate, and empower women
Dr. Aparajita Gogoi
Executive Director, C3
Aparajita Gogoi is a champion for health and gender equality, working with a single mission to make the lives of girls and women in India better. She has almost three decades of extensive experience in defining approaches and strategies, and building campaigns on community mobilization and amplification of women’s voices. She holds a PhD (International Politics) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been accorded recognition for her work in various forums - on 8th March 2011, Guardian, UK marked International Women’s Day by selecting 100 of world’s most inspiring women, and Dr Gogoi was named as one of these 100 women.
Board Members

C3 does not pay any fee/remuneration/salary/benefits to any member of its
Board and Governing Body.

  • Dr. Suneeta Mukherjee
    Chairperson

    Dr. Mukherjee’s areas of expertise range from reproductive health to gender and advocacy. She has served for nearly four decades in the Indian Administrative Service and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Having led teams in several countries in Asia, she retired in 2010 from the UNFPA as its Country Representative in the Philippines.

  • Dr. Nozer K Sheriar
    Member

    Dr. Sheriar is a leading Mumbai-based obstetrician and gynaecologist with a longstanding commitment to the advocacy and promotion of women’s health and rights. He is the Former Secretary General of the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India, Former President of the Mumbai Obstetric and Gynaecological Society and Former Scientific Chair of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He is a member of the Governing Boards of Guttmacher Institute and Ipas, and Technical Advisor to the South East Asia Region of the World Health Organization. He is the Co-chair of the Medical Advisory Panel of the Family Planning Association of India. He has edited and authored numerous scientific publications.

  • Ms. Ghazala Amin
    Member

    Ms. Amin is an Associate Professor of History in Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She has worked as a Citizen Warden with the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. She has extensive experience in anchoring and producing television programs. She has anchored a women's magazine program for ETV, which was telecast in 26 countries, and has anchored the Asian Magazine for BBC TV in London.

  • Ms. Dipa Nag Chowdhury
    Member

    Ms. Dipa Nag Chowdhury works as an independent consultant in the population and reproductive health field. Dipa worked at the India office of the MacArthur Foundation from 1998 to 2019. In her role as Deputy Director, she led the Foundation’s grantmaking on maternal health, young people’s sexual and reproductive health and girls’ secondary education. Dipa has previously worked at Naz Foundation (India) Trust, Delhi; the Mailman School of Public Health at the Columbia University, New York; and the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC. Dipa has masters’ degrees in Public Administration from Syracuse University in the US and Political Science from Mumbai University.

  • Mr. Brian Almeida
    Member

    Mr. Almeida is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Points for People, an award-winning charity platform than enables its members to donate their loyalty points to charity, and the Managing Partner at Strategic Caravan International; he also serves as a Director on the Boards of Cartesian Consulting, a leading data analytics firm, and Sisecam Flat Glass India. With over 25 years of experience as a Communications expert, he has launched several leading loyalty programs, including the British Airways Executive Club in South Asia, Taj Inner Circle, Jet Privilege, PetroBonus, First Citizen Club for Shoppers Stop and Inquimed - a medical portal for Pfizer’s. He has been serving as a jury member for the Loyalty Magazine Awards UK from 2015 to 2020.

  • Mr. Akshat Babbar
    Treasurer

    Mr. Babbar is a Vice President at ChrysCapital, a leading private equity firm in India with over $4 billion in assets under management. He leads the Technology Services investments for the firm. Previously he worked with Goldman Sachs. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, NYU Stern School of Business, and Shri Ram College of Commerce, he comes with over a decade of experience in the financial services sector.

  • Ms. Divya Sampath
    Member

    Ms. Sampath has 25+ years of leadership experience in the technology and consulting industries. Currently, she is a sponsor/portfolio partner at AWE Funds. She has built and managed high performance cross-border teams in the Americas, Europe and Asia in roles spanning business development, operations and customer success. As an angel investor and mentor, she works with multiple start-ups in fields as diverse as agritech, workplace automation, sustainability, ecommerce and fintech. Her interests include digital skill development, sustainable development, women empowerment, Digital transformation and Cloud, AI, Analytics.

  • Ms. Divyashree Bhat
    Member

    Ms. Bhat is the Industry Head for the Conglomerates vertical at Google India, bringing over 17 years of experience across consulting, technology, and media. A sales and marketing leader, she has worked with utilities, retail, and digital-first businesses, driving growth and innovation at scale. Her expertise includes scaling businesses, building brands that reach over 100 million users, and expanding the digital ecosystem for Indian languages. She has had a ringside view to digitization and the growth of ecommerce in India. She is an alumnus of Indian School of Business with a specialization in Marketing, and holds an Engineering degree from RVCE, Bangalore. Ms. Bhat is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion and facilitates programs for underrepresented groups to sponsor and empower their achievements.

     

  • Dr. Aparajita Gogoi
    Executive Director

    Dr. Gogoi is the Executive Director of C3. She holds a PhD in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has three decades of experience in program management, with expertise in designing and implementing programs, advocacy campaigns, and defining approaches and strategies for policy issues in population. A winner of the WIE Humanitarian Award, Dr. Gogoi was also named as one of the 100 most inspiring women in the world by The Guardian of UK.

Catalysts of Change

Team Members
Bihar
  • Aakash Kumar Singh
    PO - Community Processes & Capacity Building

  • Ajay Kumar
    Senior Program Officer – Family Planning

  • Akhileshwar Prasad
    Office Assistant

  • Dharni Dhar
    Finance Associate

  • Debadrita Das
    Program Associate - Midwifery

  • Gunjan Bihari
    Specialist - Gender Integration

  • Kamlesh Raj
    Program Associate - Gender Equity

  • Kumar Rajan
    Administrative Officer

Chhattisgarh
  • Jayant Sahu
    Office Assistant

  • Manish Ranjan
    Senior Program Officer – Adolescent and Young People

  • Reji S Kuruvilla
    Senior Program Officer- Reproductive Health and Rights

  • Swarupa Pandit
    Program Associate – Reproductive Health & Rights

  • Mrinmayee Mandal
    Administrative & Finance Associate

New Delhi
  • Ajay Kumar
    Specialist – Knowledge Management

  • Aman Gupta
    Accounts Officer

  • Ankita Banerjee
    Program Officer-Sustainability

  • Arun Kumar
    Director - Operations

  • Aseema Mahunta
    Senior Program Officer-Reproductive Health and Rights

  • Ashok Kumar
    Driver

  • Bhagvat Prasad Dubey
    Program Officer - Knowledge Management

  • Charulata Mukherjee
    Program Associate - Sustainability

Jharkhand
  • Ajay Kumar Singh
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People

  • Akash Kumar
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People

  • Abhinav Kumar
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people

  • Avinash Kumar
    Senior Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People

  • Chandan Kumar Roy
    Program Officer – Reproductive Health & Rights

  • Gaurav Kumar
    Program Officer – Adolescent & Young People

  • Kundan Singh
    Program Officer-Adolescent and Young People

  • Nitesh Kumar Sinha
    Administrative Officer

Odisha
  • Ashok Kumar Nayak
    State Head- Odisha

  • Himanshu Singh
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people

  • Priyambada Dash
    Program Officer - RHR

  • Pravat Kumar Patro
    Administrative & Finance Officer

  • Suchismita Mishra
    Program Associate – RHR

Uttarakhand
  • Arun Sharma
    Program Officer - Adolescent & Young people

  • Faisal Shakeel
    Admin & Finance Associate

Uttar Pradesh
  • Anjali Datta
    Technical Consultant, Panchayati Raj Community Engagement and Capacity Building

  • Amit Bhatnagar
    Administrative & Finance Officer

  • Akhilesh Kumar Dubey
    Senior Program Officer - Community Engagement and Capacity Building

  • Sucheta Shukla
    State Head - Uttar Pradesh

  • Subhash Chandra
    Office Assistant

Mohali
  • Romi Chaturvedi
    Program Associate

Rajasthan
  • Akshya Srivastava
    Senior Program Officer

  • Amar Chand Kumawat
    Administrative & Finance Officer

  • Nancy Jacob
    Project Co-ordinator

  • Noor Mohammad Khan
    Program Officer

  • Kalpana Gupta
    Program Officer

Assam
  • Lalita Deka
    State Head

  • Rajashri Saikia
    Program Officer