Priyadarshini Bhattacharya

Priyadarshini Bhattacharya is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), belonging to the 2018 batch of the West Bengal cadre. She holds an MSc in sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE) and an MA in public management from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is at present pursuing her doctoral studies in public policy and management at IIM Calcutta. Priyadarshini has served with the United Nations’ International Labour Organization. A recipient of the LSE Masters Award and the Hobhouse Memorial, she was with the International Labour Organization, United Nations. Currently serving as Joint Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development Department, and Additional CEO, NRLM, her areas of interest include gender studies, public policy and socio-economic development. She is a founder of VIRAAM, an independent digital platform that promotes conversations on and healing from subliminal forms of gender-based violence. She also researches and writes widely about gender and has published in Violence: An International Journal, The Oriental Anthropologist, International Sociological Association, Journal of Social Inclusion Studies and Madras Courier.