Sohini Bhattacharya

Biography

An intrepid entrepreneur, Sohini has been dabbling in the development sector for more than 30 years, mostly on issues of women and girls. Currently, she is a senior advisor to the Accelerator for Shifting Gender Norms Through Education, building a collaborative of successful and evidence-based programs shifting gender norms through the school system across the globe. She, very recently, was the CEO of Breakthrough, an organisation focused on transforming gender norms and building the leadership of young people to prevent gender-based violence. Sohini has worked in Breakthrough for 14 years to build a wide portfolio of supporters and partners. She is also a founding member of the Coalition for Good Schools - Voices from the South, a coalition for and of the Global South, focused on preventing violence against children in schools.