Parinita Bhattacharjee, has a career spanning over 22 years in social development across multiple sectors like HIV & AIDS, Reproductive Health, Gender and Violence. She has spent the last 15 years in leadership roles working with large scale Key Populations (KP) HIV Programmes (FSW, MSM &Transgender) funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S. Agency for International Development and Canadian International Development Agency. She has established several large scale programmes in partnership with non-governmental organisations and community based organisations in India and other parts of South East Asia. She is currently based in Nairobi since 6 years where she leads the BMGF funded technical support to The Government of Kenya to scale up key populations (FSW, MSM and PWID) programming. She is also co leading two evaluations, funded by UK Aid, addressing intimate partner violence and child marriage in India. She has a Masters Degree in Medical and Psychiatric Social Work.