Ramya Subrahmanian is Chief of the Gender, Rights and Protection research team, UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, where she oversees a portfolio that includes gender equality, violence against children and women, migration and displacement, child labour and child marriage.
Previously she was Executive Director of Know Violence in Childhood, a global learning initiative (2013-2018). Prior to that, she was a social policy specialist at UNICEF India where she led research, policy analysis and advocacy in the areas of child-sensitive social protection, equity and social inclusion, and gender equality. She has been a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, focusing on gender mainstreaming, women's rights, child labour and education, and on social policies for children in India. She also co-directed and taught the MA Programme in Gender and Development, and has conducted evaluations and trainings for numerous international agencies. She has a PhD in Development Studies and a MA in Gender and Development.