Kavita N. Ramdas

Kavita Ramdas
Ramdas at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2013
Born	1962/1963 (age 54–55) Delhi, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Princeton University (MPA '88); Mount Holyoke College (BA '85)
Occupation	former President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women

Kavita Ramdas (born 1962 or 1963) is senior advisor to the Ford Foundation's president, Darren Walker. She assumed the position in 2015 after serving for 3 years as Ford's India country representative, representing the office in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of the Program on Social Entrepreneurship at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She is the former President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women.

Kavita Ramdas is the daughter of Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas, former Head of the Indian Navy. Both of Kavita's parents, Retd. Admiral L Ramdas and Lalita Ramdas, and her sister Sagari Ramdas are have been closely associated with the Aam Aadmi Party through its core committee.

Kavita Ramdas was born in Delhi, India and grew up in Mumbai, Delhi, London, Rangoon, and Bonn. She attended high school at the Nikolaus Cusanus Gymnasium in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany; the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, and graduated from Springdales School, New Delhi, in 1980. She studied Political Science at Hindu College, University of Delhi for two years until 1982. In 1983, she was awarded a scholarship to Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she received her B.A. in international relations in 1985 and her M.P.A. in international development and public policy studies from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1988.