Paromita Chowdhury is a programme officer at Oak Foundation, where she manages the grant portfolio of the Joint India Programme. Prior to Oak, she worked with CARE India and Oxfam Great Britain/India on issues of reproductive rights, economic justice, rights to essential services and gender justice. Paromita has a postgraduate degree in rural management from Xavier Institute of Social Services, Ranchi, a postgraduate diploma in human resources management from Symbiosis, Pune. She is also a Packard Fellow on population and reproductive health.