Sarojini Ganju Thakur was Acting Head of the Gender Section of the Commonwealth Secretariat. She was on secondment from the Indian Administrative Service (Himachal Cadre) which she joined in 1977. She has worked in many capacities and her latest postings in the Government of India were as Joint Secretary, Department of Women and Child Development and as Deputy Director, LBS National Academy of Administration, where she primarily worked on mainstreaming gender training for civil servants.
