Ramya Subrahmanian is an international gender equality and child rights expert with over thirty years’ experience working with NGOs, within academia and with the UN. Currently she leads the Gender equality, child rights and protection research team at the UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti, with a portfolio that includes gender, care, social and family policy; violence against children and women, migration and displacement, child marriage, child labour, and children’s care reform. Previously she was Executive Director of Know Violence in Childhood, a global learning initiative that collaborated with 140 researchers on the evidence on effective strategies to prevent violence against children. Prior to that, she has worked as a Social Policy specialist at UNICEF India and has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex where she also co-directed and taught the MA Programme in Gender and Development. She is passionate about working across sectors, across institutions, and across actor networks to find innovative and impactful ways to drive and sustain change.