Amitabh Behar

Amitabh Behar

Amitabh Behar is the permanent executive director of Oxfam International, before which he was CEO of Oxfam India. He is passionate about governance accountability, social and economic equality, and citizen participation. Over the years, he has worked on building people-centric campaigns, alliances for social justice, and linking microactivism to macrochanges. Behar is one of the leading experts in people-centered advocacy and is the chair of the board of the Navsarjan Trust.

Latest Articles

Opinion: How to get from rhetoric to reality in decolonizing development

Opinion: How to get from rhetoric to reality in decolonizing development

almost 2 years ago // Inclusive Development

Oxfam’s Amitabh Behar breaks down how decolonization in development must be applied to organizational design, the distribution of money, and the way skill sets are valued.

Opinion: Decolonizing development is key to avoid path to irrelevance

Opinion: Decolonizing development is key to avoid path to irrelevance

over 3 years ago // Inclusive development

Oxfam India's Amitabh Behar argues that the development community needs to confront some deeply political questions about its architecture, particularly how power is distributed, to avoid sliding into irrelevance.