Anisha Chugh

Anisha Chugh is the Executive Director of Women’s Fund Asia (WFA), a regional fund advancing gender equality and inclusion across 22 countries in Asia. Anisha has been with WFA for over a decade, contributing significantly to its regional impact and positioning as a key feminist fund in Asia. Before WFA, she was with the Dalit Foundation, a leading human rights funder in India focused on caste equity.

Anisha is actively engaged in contributing to shaping global funding for gender equality and strongly believes in strengthening a multi-sectoral approach, a truly diverse funding ecosystem to resource critical work on gender equality. As part of pursuing this mandate, Anisha is engaging in diverse spaces, representing the voice and experiences of WFA and its partners. She presently serves on the Advisory Board of the Resilience Fund for women in global value chains, and the Steering Committee of the Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) as the co-chair, the steering board of RISE – Reimagining Industry to Support Equality. Anisha also recently joined the US board of Women Win Foundation. She previously served on the steering board of Fenomenal Funds and was one of the ambassadors of the Feminist Foreign Policy conference 2023 hosted by the government of the Netherlands.

Anisha holds a Bachelor’s in History from St. Stephen’s College and a Master’s in modern Indian history from the University of Delhi. She also holds a Master’s in Governance and Development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex.

Anisha believes “If we want inclusive and lasting change, we must resource those closest to the challenges and trust them to lead the solutions. Philanthropy must evolve – from charity to solidarity, from control to collaboration.”