Sudarsana is the Country Director for Gender at Work India, where she is working with other civil society organizations (CSOs) on making organizations more gender equal. Through her work leading UN Women’s programmes on gender and governance, she has worked with governments and CSOs across the globe, providing recommendations on enhancing service delivery for women. She has advised numerous organizations on developing strategies that ensure public and private sector actors  have a stronger social and economic impact, particularly with respect to gender equality. In the past she has also worked with a Fortune 500 company where she had the opportunity to pioneer several new organizational development initiatives. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University and an MBA in Human Resources Management from the Xavier School of Management, India. She is also an active board member of Nayi Disha, a not-for-profit focused on empowering parents who have children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.