Dr Padmaja Ravula, is a Principal Scientist at ICRISAT. She leads two clusters– Gender and youth cluster and Knowledge and Capacity development. She is an Indian National and has a PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences (Specialization: Sociology) from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B). Her research interests are building the evidence base on gender in agriculture, empowerment of women, understanding the agriculture-nutrition linkages in the semi-arid tropics with a gender perspective, and raising the voices of the poor women through data and metrics. She also leads the Dryland Academy and coordinates all the training programs and capacity development activities at ICRISAT. The Dryland Academy is a “one stop shop” for all trainings at ICRISAT