Amitabh Behar of the National Foundation for India joins GFCF board

We are delighted to announce that Amitabh Behar joined the GFCF board as of 1st September 2015. Amitabh is currently the Executive Director of the National Foundation for India. His areas of interest are governance and civil society. Over the years he has worked on issues promoting governance accountability and social action. He is one of the leading experts of people centered advocacy and was the Executive Director of the National Centre of Advocacy Studies.

Amitabh is the Co-chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, the Convener of National Social Watch Coalition and earlier the Convener of the Wada Na Todo Abhiyaan (Don’t Break Your Promises Campaign) in India. He sits on several other organizational boards including the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, Navsarjan and mobile creche and is the President of Yuva.