Ravi Verma, PhD is Regional Director for the International Centre for Research on Women's (ICRW) Asia Regional Office in New Delhi, India. Over the past three decades, he has worked on issues of men, masculinities, male sexual health and gender equality as they relate to violence against women, reproductive health including family planning and HIV and AIDS in India and other Asian countries. Prior to joining ICRW in 2007, Dr Verma was a programme associate with Population Council/Horizons, where he collaborated with partners to design, implement and evaluate innovative operations research projects on gender and HIV. For more than 20 years, he was on the faculty and a professor in the department of population policies and programmes at the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai, India. He has published extensively on these issues in both Indian and international journals of repute. Dr Verma is represented on a number of both national and international strategic committees and advisory bodies including High Level Committee on the Status of Women (HLCSW), Government of India and the Rights & Empowerment working group of the FP2020 Initiative.