(October 2011) Gary Barker is currently the international director of Promundo-US and was previously the founding Executive Director of Promundo, a Brazilian NGO, based in Rio de Janeiro, that works locally, nationally, and internationally to promote gender equity and to reduce violence against children, women and youth. He has carried out research on men, violence, gender, health, and conflict in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, and co-authored numerous training materials, including the Program H series for working with young men to promote gender equality and reduce violence against women. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, WHO, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, USAID, the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Brazilian government on issues related to gender, engaging men, health promotion, and violence prevention. He holds a master's in public policy and a Ph. D. in child development and is an Ashoka Fellow. He is co-chair and co-founder of MenEngage, a global alliance of NGOs and UN agencies working to engage men and boys in gender equality. Dr. Barker was co-principal investigator for the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), a nine-country study on men, women, and gender equality in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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