The Antara Foundation brings together talented and committed individuals, bound by a common determination to make a difference.

An address from our Founder-Director, Ashok Alexander

Meet our leadership team here.

Ashok Alexander

FOUNDER-DIRECTOR
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Ankita Pandey

PROGRAM LEAD (Training & Implementation)
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Ashutosh Gautam

PROGRAM LEAD (Training & Implementation)
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Balaji Govindarajan

SENIOR MANAGER (Finance & Accounts)
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Chandrika Bahadur

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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Dinesh Dadhich

SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER
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Kritika Pandey

SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER
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Krupa Varghese

PROGRAM LEAD (M&E, Implementation and Knowledge Management)
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Neeraj Jham

DIRECTOR (Programs)
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Paras Nath Sidh

DIRECTOR (Programs)
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Piyush Bhatt

SENIOR PROGRAM LEAD (Training & Implementation)
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Prerna Gopal

CHIEF OF STAFF to the CEO
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Radha Pradhan

SENIOR NURSE MENTOR
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Rajesh Suryavanshi

SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER
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Reenu Uppal

DIRECTOR
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Shelly Dutta

SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER
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Shreya Ravichandran

CHIEF OF STAFF to the FOUNDER-DIRECTOR
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Srishti Rajput

SENIOR ASSOCIATE (Finance & Accounts)
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Program Officers

Our implementation is led by young, passionate colleagues at the field level

Our Program Officers – Training and Implementation each manage a block comprising 100-150 villages. They implement TAF programs across the block, working with frontline workers, community leaders, block health officials, and other stakeholders. Our Program Officers – Nurse Mentoring and Capacity Building, are nursing professionals with significant technical and practical experience in maternal, newborn and child health. They adopt five public health facilities each based on the delivery load and other key maternal and newborn health indicators and train the staff nurses to bridge gaps in critical knowledge and skills. They also work towards facility readiness for providing quality services.

Meet some of our dynamic program officers and nurse mentors and hear about their experience at TAF.

Radha Pradhan

Senior Program Officer, Nurse Mentoring and Capacity Building

Year End Reflections

Championing Change

Journey of a Program Officer

Our Fellows bring enormous energy to field operations.

The Antara Foundation Fellowship is one of the most rigorous and experiential Fellowship programs in the development sector. This 12-month program attracts some of India’s brightest young professionals. Based on an experiential learning pedagogy, TAF’s Fellowship encourages fellows to engage with previous experience and incorporate it into new observations, which enables them to experiment. This is a unique and immersive experience to work at the grassroots and help improve maternal and child health in rural India.

Chandrika Bahadur, our CEO, speaks about the Fellowship Program

“The best solutions to complex problems often come from those closest to the issues.”