Ravi Verma is Regional Director for the International Centre for Research on Women's (ICRW) Asia Regional Office in New Delhi. Over the past three decades or so he has worked on issues of men, masculinities, male sexual health and gender equality as they relate to violence against women, reproductive health including family planning, and HIV and AIDS in India and Asia. Ravi is also the Chair of the Indian National Technical Resource Group on Stigma and Vice-Chair of the Indian National AIDS Control Ethics Review Committee. He also sits on advisory committees on the government’s response to child marriage, gender-based violence and adolescent health.