Born and raised in India, she has lived and worked in 3 continents and provided expert policy and program guidance working globally and regionally during her career. She was most recently the Executive Director of Action for AIDS, the largest national independent provider of sexual health and HIV programs in Singapore. Prior to that she worked with Plan International UK providing technical guidance and advise to adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights programs across multiple countries during which she also led the organization’s participation in the London Summit on Family Planning in 2012. Sumita also worked with ICASO in Toronto Canada where in addition to managing multi-country programs, she served as the gender lead and focal point for Asia Pacific.

Sumita began her career after completing her post-graduation in India working on women’s empowerment, rights and health access. She has an MSc in Health Policy from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK; Master of Arts, University of Delhi, India and Post-graduate Diploma in Management, McGill University, Canada.