Antara Ganguli is the Director of the UN Girls Education Initiative, the only UN entity dedicated to gender equality in and through education. A seasoned expert on policy and programming related to gender equality and women's and girls' empowerment Antara has two decades of experience supporting ministers, heads of UN agencies, local and global NGOs on programme management, measurement and policy related to gender in education, gender in health systems, women's economic empowerment, girls' empowerment and supporting boys and men on positive masculinity. Antara is an alumna of Dalberg Global Advisers, Booz Allen Hamilton and AKANKSHA Foundation.