Anita Sharma

Anita Sharma is currently an independent consultant, focussing on projects related to global health, female empowerment, and progressive U.S. policies. Previously, she was the Senior Director of Millennium Development Goals Initiatives at the United Nations Foundation in New York from 2011-2017. In this capacity, she engaged with civil society, government leaders, the private sector, faith groups, and individuals in an effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Her work focused around the Every Women Every Child effort, which put into action the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health.

Also, Anita was the North American Coordinator for the United Nations Millennium Campaign. Her career has spanned a range of development, humanitarian response and conflict prevention positions in Washington, DC and around the world. She was the executive director of ENOUGH, an initiative of the Center for American Progress and the International Crisis Group to abolish genocide and mass atrocities. She served as governance advisor in Indonesia with the Office of the United Nations Recovery Coordinator and has held international posts in Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, and Kosovo with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the Council of Europe. In the United States, she directed the Conflict Prevention Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has also worked as the research director for the Role of American Military Power Project and the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.

Anita holds a bachelor's degree with honors from Syracuse University and a master's degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is on the Board of Citizens for Global Solutions, and the Millennium Campus Network.

She has been a commentator for numerous media outlets including BBC, CNN, Fox Business News, Voice of America and has published in Open Democracy and UN Dispatch, among others.