Archives: Leaders
Director, Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean María Antonieta Alcalde serves as director of Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean, a regional program based in Mexico City. She is a seasoned leader in the field of sexual and reproductive health and righ …
Director, Ipas Bolivia Dr. Morales has fulfilled various roles since joining Ipas Bolivia in 1999, including Medical Advisor, coordinator of a multi-year project for postabortion care, and most recently coordinator of a multi-year project to advance se …
Director, Ipas Indonesia Prior to joining Ipas, Dr. Soumokil worked for several international organizations within Indonesia in the areas of HIV, adolescent reproductive health, maternal and newborn health, and health governance. Dr. Soumokil is a trai …
Chief Executive Officer, Ipas Development Foundation Vinoj Manning is Chief Executive Officer of the Ipas Development Foundation (IDF) in India, a partner organization of Ipas. Heading up a multi-disciplinary team of more than 100 staff based in 12 off …
Dr. Sayed Rubayet, a medical doctor with extensive experience as a technical leader, researcher and manager, leads Ipas’s work in Bangladesh. He joined Ipas after working for Save the Children International, Bangladesh, where he was director of the Saving Newborn Lives program for four years.
Baltimore, Maryland, USA Plazas is an experienced financial executive with a background in accounting, fiscal management and business administration. He is the chief operating officer of Planned Parenthood of Maryland (PPM), which provides reproductive …
Kisumu, Kenya Dr. Monica Oguttu is the founder and Executive Director of the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET) in Kenya. KMET works in underserved communities to promote maternal, child, and family health and operates in 35 of the 47 counties i …
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA Hayford Mensah is the Chief Financial Officer for Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a national organization that advocates for the rights of unaccompanied migrant and refugee children in the United States. Funded by the Micr …
Göteborg, Sweden Hans Linde is the President of RFSU, the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education, which has 19 local branches across Sweden. He was a member of the Parliament of Sweden from 2006-2017 and served as a member of the Parliament’s Comm …
Sherman Oaks, California, USA Karlin is a nonprofit executive with more than 25 years of experience in program development, fundraising and operations. She currently serves as executive vice president for external affairs and business development at th …
Virginia, USA Linda DeNicola is the Chief Financial Officer at ASIS International, the world’s largest association for security professionals. She previously served as chief financial officer at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and at Pathfi …
Uttarakhand, India Ishita Chaudhry is an Ashoka Fellow, INK Fellow with over 20 years of experience rooted in working with women and girls from underserved and marginalized communities to advance feminist leadership. She is the Founder of The YP Founda …
New York, New York, USA Campbell is Managing Director of Debt Capital Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York, where she leads a team of professionals providing strategic financing advice to Fortune 500 companies. She was a member of the b …
Laurel, Maryland, USA Manju Badlani recently retired as Chief Human Resources and Administrative Officer with Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University that works with health-care providers around the world. She led the organization in the stra …
Chief Operating Officer Prior to joining Ipas in 2016, Ms. Simutami served as Vice President for East Africa at PSI where she led and managed a region of 11 countries and more than 1700 staff, annual revenue of approximately 185 million and diverse pro …
Chief Scientific and Technical Officer Dr. Andersen sets Ipas’s strategic technical direction and research agenda in support of the organizational strategic plan and mission. She leads Ipas’s work to understand and advance key issues in abortion and co …
President and CEO Dr. Kumar joined Ipas in 2002 as Executive Vice President. In that role, she had oversight of Ipas’s fundraising and communications efforts, started a new technical area working with communities and pioneered work on abortion stigma. …