- Voorschoten, Nederland
- 4 november 2025
FUNCTIONAL & INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
- Strategy, Project Management, International Advocacy, Human Rights, Campaign Management, Partnerships and Alliances, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Account Management, Digital Marketing
- E-commerce, aviation, retail, CRM/ loyalty management (15 years in India); NGO/human rights (2½ years in Europe)
- Co-founded a startup in India in the niche/ exotic foods category
SKILLS
- Applicable to NGO sector: Streamlining processes, defining goals/objectives/KRAs, international advocacy, setting up alliances and collaborations, setting up review mechanisms, using analytics for better customer insights, identifying new revenue streams, developing talent
- Other skills: Identifying and developing key institutional clients for wider market reach and penetration of unexplored markets, growing revenues consistently, establishing channel networks, streamlining workflows, creating a teamwork-based environment for revenue and profit growth
- Languages Spoken: English (C1 level), Dutch (A2 level) , Hindi( C1 level)
Opleiding
Ervaring
GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENCE (GHRD) October 2022 till date
(GHRD is a human rights organization founded in 2003, which specializes in minority rights and marginalized community rights and is based in The Hague, Netherlands)
Role: Advisor, Special Projects, reporting to Chairman, GHRD
Highlights:
• United Nations engagement: GHRD has an ECOSOC status with the UN, therefore giving it a consultative status. I help formulate a strategy for increasing the scope of work with the UN, both at Geneva and New York, and have led the team to take part in the past 8 Human Rights Council Sessions, organized 5 side events at the UN, held 8 protests and 2 exhibitions at The Broken Chair UN Geneva, and also networked and lobbied with several diplomats , missions and Special Rapporteurs at UN Geneva.
• Partnerships and Collaborations: Increase visibility of existing partner organizations (current base of 25) and their cause, through media coverage, help amplify their voices through advocacy and lobbying of partner issues with international bodies such as the UN and EU and organizing protests with them. Also responsible for increasing partner base and work on more collaborations with other human rights organizations. Have also organized events with partners for instance ‘Special Hearing with Special Rapporteur for Minority Issues’ held in August 2024 in The Hague.
• Planning 2025 Human Rights Film Festival: Co-organized the 2024 film festival on Children Rights which was held in Pathe Buiten Hof, The Hague. Over180 people, attended the festival, also including over 20 diplomats. This year I am leading the team of the 2025 film festival on Climate Change and Human Rights, which includes films selection, venue selection and planning, jury selection, planning festival promotion, tying up with partners, movie makers and panelists, operational aspects etc
• Campaign Management: Part of an annual joint campaign called ‘ Forced Organ Harvesting of Falung Gong living people’ along with Doctors against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) and Falung Gong practitioners, led by ex Member of Parliament Harry Van Bommel. Work includes visibility of cause through podacsts and social media, international advocacy at UN, submission of petition to various ministries in Europe and United States of America among others
• Marketing and Media Management: (Past Role) Strategy to increase visibility through media and social media platforms and monitoring performance through analytics; Responsible for redesigning GHRD and GHRTV websites, working closely with the events and promotion team.
• Team Management: Recruit and manage teams for marketing (social media, events and promotion and website management), UN and Partners and Alliances, and hold periodic reviews with them
• Others: Jury member of the ‘My name is Climate’ film festival held in Burmingham, UK.
Hosted a podcast with Dr Anthonie Holslag, independent genocide scholar (link:https://youtu.be/lkFiiq4xCDo)