She is an IAS Officer of the 2010 batch. Before joining the LBSNAA in
February 2024 as Deputy Director, she held various posts in the Madhya
Pradesh cadre as Director, MP Employees Selection Board, CEO of MP State
Skill Development and Employment Generation Board, Director, Employment, DM
Raisen, Additional Commissioner, Commercial Taxes, CEO ZP Harda, and SDM
Itarsi. She was briefly an Officer Trainee in the Tamil Nadu cadre as well.
In 2019-20, she completed her Masters in Education, Gender, and
International Development from University College London. Her broad areas
of experience include recruitment exams, skill development,
entrepreneurship, employment, the conduct of elections, HR management,
capacity building, and community-led total sanitation. She is passionate
about gender issues, social justice, DEI at schools & workplaces,
financial empowerment, and behavioral economics. Other hobbies and
interests are creative arts, sudoku, reading books, and comparative
linguistics.
Ms. Anjali Chauhan is an Chief Programme Officer at the National Gender
and Child Centre, LBSNAA, Mussoorie. She has been involved in imparting
training on gender issues since last 27 years. A Law graduate and with an
MA in Sociology, Ms. Chauhan has undergone special training on women and
micro credit at Durham University, United Kingdom as a master trainer. She
has conducted various courses as a capacity building strategist in
collorabation with UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP and State Administrative Training
Institutes. She specializes on issues related to women such as gender,
gender based violence, women empowermnet and reproductive rights and has
been involved in these issues as a researcher as well as trainer.