Since January 2009, Khushbu has led IWHC’s program in
Asia, which works with key organizations who engage at the policy level on
sexual, reproductive, and youth rights in their countries and region-wide.
Khushbu brings a strong commitment to engaging communities at the policy level
to enhance choice as a fundamental political right of all women, men, and
children.

She has eight years of experience
working in ten countries across Asia and Africa.  Before joining IWHC, she served as a
consultant for the United Nations Population Fund, where she led a 36-country
project to enhance reproductive health aspects of global humanitarian response,
focusing on gender-based violence.  Prior to that, Khushbu worked for CARE
International to empower grassroots communities to address the root causes of
violence at the national and regional levels in Burundi, the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.  She has also lived in India,
working with CARE, the International Center for Research on Women, and leading
independent research on the sustainability of sex workers’ unions. 
Khushbu completed her undergraduate degree at Wellesley, and has a Masters of
Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.  In
addition to English, she speaks French and Hindi.