Team
Renu Golwalkar
Senior Director, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
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Renu is responsible for ensuring the integration of gender, youth, and social inclusion across all EngenderHealth programs worldwide, with a focus on facilitating gender transformative change and meaningful youth participation. She brings over 20 years of experience supporting programs working in gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, and women’s economic empowerment and life skills development in India. Renu earned a doctorate of philosophy in reproductive and sexual health for young people from Visva Bharati University and a master of social work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.