Dipa Nag Chowdhury was Deputy Director of the India office of the MacArthur Foundation. She led MacArthur’s grantmaking on Population and Reproductive Health in India and for the international portfolio. She was also Program Officer for the Foundation’s grantmaking on girls’ secondary education. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1998, Dipa worked with the Naz Foundation Trust in India, the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C. Dipa has Masters Degrees in Political Science from Mumbai University, India, and Public Administration from Syracuse University.