Poonam Muttreja is the executive director of the Population Foundation of India (PFI). She previously served as the India country director of the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation. Poonam has also co-founded organisations in the areas of social justice (SRUTI) and craft (DASTKAR), and programmes on leadership (Ashoka Foundation, India). She is a member of a committee at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington DC.