Meenakshi joins IES as a Principal Research Consultant, with 21 years of experience in consulting across strategic HR, organization development and leadership development. She has worked with top teams across corporate and not for profit organizations to deliver long-term leadership interventions, high potential talent assessments, organizational vision and culture building programs, personal transformation, and gender inclusion workshops. She is a seasoned facilitator, certified executive coach, and conversant in the use of psychometric instruments. Her experience spans diverse sectors including banking and financial services, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and United Nations agencies.

Meenakshi is nearing completion of her PhD in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Her research expertise lies at the intersections of gender equality and labour market policy, with a focus on women’s unpaid care work work, parental leave, and childcare policy. She is a qualitative researcher experienced in conducting archival research, focus groups and interviews. She has worked extensively on regional and global level care policy reviews, particularly across countries of Asia and the Pacific. She uses a gendered political economy analysis framework to develop insights into policymaking and governance processes.

Meenakshi is passionate about promoting gender equality in the workplace and addressing care needs of workers through HR policy and practice. She is a founding member of the Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusive Leadership at the Xavier Labour Relations Institute in India.

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