Suranjana Gupta

Suranjana is currently the India-based Senior Advisor for Community Resilience at the Huairou Commission (HC) – a coalition of grassroots women’s organisations and partners focused on women’s leadership in resilient, sustainable, gender-just communities.

Suranjana has worked for more than 25 years on disaster and climate resilience from a women’s empowerment perspective.

She worked on developing HC’s Community Resilience Fund, facilitated learning exchanges and has supported dialogue and collaboration with policy institutions to increase recognition and resources for grassroots women’s initiatives.

Suranjana grew up in Mumbai and completed her BA and MA in Sociology at the University of Mumbai before she went on to study Development Studies at the London School of Economics.